In 1981 the US National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health found higher stress levels among electronically monitored clerks than among any other occupational group that they studied.

In my travels I always looked forward to finding myself at home in one of them, among smiling clerks who inevitably made me smile, too.

While his paper trail might attract critics eager to see potential conflicts of interest, his substantial professional experience, rare among clerks, may also be a big asset.

As a holding company controlling various subsidiaries, Chemicana, Inc. was staffed by persons who rated as experts among clerks and stenographers.

However, the appointment of district land officers were done by designation only among surveyors, public land inspectors, land attorneys, and clerks.

The layoffs cut 17 percent of management positions and 9 percent of staff positions - among them, nurses, technicians, clerks, secretaries and marketing people.

So far, the labor shortage, insofar as it exists at all, is showing itself mostly at the low end of the wage scale, among restaurant workers, clerks and salespeople.

Across the nation, the staff reductions cut across business sectors but are heaviest among clerks, sales people, construction workers and lower-echelon supervisors and managers, according to Labor Department data.

They are found among news vendors and clerks, maitres d'hotel, cloth importers, stockbrokers and road sweepers - they can be anyone.

At that time TB was rife, especially among sorting clerks.