Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Service jobs come in every imaginable description, from powerful (President of the U.S.) to humble (janitors), noisy (auctioneers) to quiet (librarians), outdoorsy (hunters and trappers) to indoorsy (accountants and pharmacists). Among the largest job classifications are professionals (13.8 million), executives and managers (12.2 million), sales workers (12.7 million) and secretaries (4 million). In more specific categories, the Labor Department counts 131,000 dentists, 102,000 economists, 84,000 professional athletes, 124,000 messengers, 324,000 bartenders and 126,000 news vendors. The country employs eight times as many hairdressers and cosmetologists (707,000) as it does barbers...
Retired professors are also called away from quiet retirement to deliver speeches or apply their expertise. "There are always special writing and lecturing responsibilities, particularly in the bicentennial year of the Constitution," says the constitutional law expert...
...Taylor is quiet. He is well-liked by his teammates for both his steady personality and his humorous streak. During road trips, he'll keep the team in good spirits with a joke...
...hardened 36-year-old, embodies bull- headed heroism. As a boy, Dallas read Zane Grey, trapped animals on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and harbored a dream to head West. In 1968 he did, and started as a buckaroo on a ranch in Oregon. Acquaintances called him gentle, quiet, a loner. Dallas earned a reputation as a hard worker and a fellow who'd stare you straight in the eye. "Buckarooing," he once explained in charming simplicity, "is just a man doing his job, working with livestock on horseback, doing whatever work that has to be done on horseback regarding livestock...
...Afghan capital of Kabul was strangely quiet last week. After seven years of a Moscow-backed civil war with Muslim guerrillas, the government began a six-month cease-fire, called by Afghan Communist Party Leader Najibullah. Fifty foreign correspondents were taken on carefully planned tours of Kabul the day Najibullah appeared on television to plead with rebels to join the cease-fire...