Over the same period, the number of telephone operators plunged by 64 percent, word processors and typists by 63 percent, travel agents by 46 percent and bookkeepers by 26 percent, according to Labor Department statistics.
The number of service unit operators, who keep the oil flowing from wells and remove obstructions such as stuck pipes and casings, is up by a fifth, to 30, 440 from 25, 360 a year earlier, putting them at number three on our list behind aircraft assembly workers.
There have been a number of cases where the operators of Bitcoin financial institutions have lost client funds because of alleged security breaches.
As the media churns out fanciful stories about wildly successful hedge fund managers that take huge risks and produce spectacular returns, investor demand grows and the number of hedge fund operators mushrooms.
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There is also a view that the large number of acquisitions made by the big operators has, ironically, caused the postal sector to become more than ever dominated by states.
Second, we extended our leadership position in the advanced television space by substantially increasing the number of major domestic and international operators that TiVo is now deploying with, including Virgin Media, Charter, DIRECTV, ONO, Suddenlink, RCN, and Grande.
ENGADGET: TiVo releases Q4 results, announces transcoder and IP set-top box on the way
But many doctors frown on this practice for a number of reasons, including the varied skills and hygiene of the operators and the risk of accidents, such as glue falling into eyes and damaging corneas.
The technique is used by telecom operators to get an overview of the number of blocked or dropped calls, and other traffic issues.
Experts predict that to meet the growing demand, operators in developed countries may have to treble the number of base stations.
Historically, January is the month when tour operators, both online and offline, run the greatest number of deeply discounted holiday packages, where flights are sold along with hotels.
The rules also limit the number of entrance doors to improve monitoring and require operators to take steps to prevent unregulated sales outside shows, including notifying law enforcement of shows so they can patrol nearby.
In a bid to help the struggling solar companies, the grid operator unveiled a number of measures last week to ease pressures facing solar project operators in connecting power plants to the electric grid.
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As a result, some operators say they have reduced the number of passengers on their boats, taking a toll on revenues.
Huawei Ascend P1 LTE is currently the device compatible with the highest number of frequency bands and is being tested on operators' networks across Europe, Latin America, North America, Asia-Pacific.
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"The whole city is a mess, people are calling each other, the operators can't cope with such a huge number of calls at a time, " said Olga, a BBC News website reader in Moscow.
"There is provision for pitches to be changed over the course of a season, but there is no set number, " said Wembley operators in a statement.
Train operators are running 1, 000 extra services a day while the number of passenger journeys has increased by nearly 100m in the past two years.
The authors of the report, commissioners Benjamin Tang and Michael Lunn, described themselves as "astonished and deeply dismayed" that the department had also failed to enforce regulations requiring boat operators to have an adequate number of life jackets on board for both adults and children.
This would help consumers save on their energy use, reduce the number of new power plants that need to be built, and provide more accurate information to grid operators about how to allocate electricity use.
Kilowatts as a metric is the blueprint for every datacenter built as operators want to ensure that given limited power available, they can support the maximum number of systems.
The government and Transport Scotland have started work with operators, local authorities and regional transport partnerships on a number of demonstrator projects.
In July 2007, there were 157 models from eighteen vendors, and the number of networks with approved embedded wireless for notebooks has risen to 20, based on Qualcomm's and network operators' figures.
The number of passengers must increase, says Carwyn Jones and for that he needs to attract back, or attract in operators who will want to fly them to where they want to go, at a price they're prepared to pay.
Over the past 12 months, we successfully demonstrated the value of our intellectual property, continued to attract the interest of operators around the globe to TiVo's advanced television solutions and TiVo's total subscription number moved to a strong positive trajectory.
ENGADGET: TiVo releases Q4 results, announces transcoder and IP set-top box on the way
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