In Ohio, dieticians, athletic trainers and boxing promoters are among the professions that require licenses.
Besides professionalising the professions by this separation, top American universities have professionalised the professor.
As the professions, politicians and patient groups scrap over the detail, that is the bigger picture.
But governments recently have tended to lose interest in the professions or, worse, to turn hostile.
Some 300, 000 underemployed immigrants could then return to the professions for which they were trained.
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It's the challenging but achievable career choices (such as joining the professions) that are avoided by High-FFs.
But we cannot ignore the dispiriting figures that tell the broader, non-anectodal story of women in the professions.
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Get the necessary skills to move to the top in politics, the arts, the professions and the Fortune 500.
Then their children and grandchildren did well at school and eschewed the anti-social grind of catering for the professions.
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The explanation may lie in a changed relationship between the professions and government.
GDP, thanks to archaic rules such as those governing retailing and the professions.
So reforming the professions is likely to remain a grinding, thankless task, subject to endless carping and obstruction from practitioners.
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Sales and business development ranked second among the professions, with a net 10% of respondents saying they planned to add staff.
The professions where people drink the most include construction, agriculture and manufacturing--all fields that involve a lot of dangerous, heavy machinery.
In the professions they choose, it is unlikely that they will need to quote Rousseau, or recount the Epic of Gilgamesh.
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Reaching a comprehensive agreement on how to group the professions was difficult.
It raised the status of the professions, by making them harder to enter, and it saved the liberal-arts college from withering away.
"All human realities, all the circumstances of human life, all the professions, every family and social situation, are means of sanctification, " Ocariz said.
We remain largely absent there even though we entered business, the professions, sports, religion, and politics in the droves in the early 1970s.
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Because they dissented from the Church of England, members of the sect were barred from the professions and as a result gravitated toward business.
These had come, supposedly temporarily, to work in the tin mines and plantations but were settling permanently and increasingly dominating business and the professions.
So far, it has only scratched the surface, with a clutch of measures to free up the professions and such small businesses as taxi-driving.
The company's website describes Mr Sturrock as "a pioneer in mediation and high quality training in business, the professions and commerce in Scotland and elsewhere".
Black people remain under-represented in the professions, he says, quoting figures that there were less than 50 black dentists from a population of 35 million.
More importantly, structural reform is still worth pursuing -- opening up the professions, reforming the public sector, and liberalizing an economy that only benefits insiders are laudable goals.
Mr Milburn, MP for Darlington, will chair a panel of representatives from the professions who will generate proposals for what they can do to widen access in their sphere.
Despite the weakness of the economy, Mr Milburn said employment in the professions was increasing and there was a "prospective dividend" for the country if policies were got right.
"The key is to ensure that those from disadvantaged backgrounds are as able to access the professions as those from more privileged backgrounds, " said its UK head Andrew Leck.
Some of the professions on our list require only a high school education, but many call for extensive training and apprenticeships that can last as long as four years.
Long before there was an American Arbitration Association, antagonists in business and the professions who feared the abstrusities of law courts had a different means of alternative dispute resolution:the duel.
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