The stationmasters thus retained manual control over this pool of reservations whilst supporting automation of the larger set of reservations previously controlled by railway clerks.
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In cases where clerks were employed, there is no way to be sure how precise they were in recording forms verbatim.
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Pomerantz shows, for instance, how the design of the clerk's initial inquiry has consequences for the rest of the call.
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The ' educated class ', mainly government clerks, he wrote, were ' social snobs ', unwilling to mix with manual workers.
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Parish registrars and hospital clerks, for example, selected those facts considered essential for their assigned tasks.
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Instead, these positions fell to police officers and civilian clerks.
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Four general principles would be followed by the census clerks with regard to disputable cases.
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To what extent literacy in love really prepared clerks for their subsequent experiences of marriage and fatherhood, they apparently did not record.
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A simple bedside assessment should be used and the findings recorded within the clerking pro forma for stroke patients.
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Less than 2.5 per cent of all inventories were for professional people (attorneys, apothecaries, barbers, schoolteachers, surgeons and clerks).
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Still, a survey of the laws regulating sheriffs, marshals, clerks, custom collectors, surveyors, and so forth, is striking for its continuity with the past.
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Data were entered and verified independently by data entry clerks at the completion of the study.
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Shopkeepers and small tradesmen made up around 30 per cent of the local workforce, while clerks represented around 15 per cent.
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In fact, they were increasingly run by their clerks, often lawyers, while their governors and assistants participated less in day-to-day management.
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By 1931 10 per cent of young women workers were shop assistants, and 12.5 per cent were clerks.
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Collocationswithclerk
clerk
These are words often used in combination withclerk.
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chief clerk
Letters to my constituent are signed by a divisional officer, so-called, but any reply must be addressed to achiefclerk.
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county clerk
If it is proposed to remove acountyclerk, then seven days' notice is given for reflection.
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deputy clerk
In this case, thedeputyclerkof the urban district council conducted the case on behalf of the planning authority.
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