Word: repairman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...manager at the Xerox branch office in Syracuse, N.Y., Chester Howell supervises a staff of about 20, mainly repair technicians and clerical workers. All but two are white. Howell is black. A former copier-machine repairman who rose through an affirmative-action promotion plan, he ran into some resistance when he first assumed his higher job. There were fierce arguments with one of his white assistant managers. "He questioned every decision I made," says Howell. "He wanted to double-check everything...
...Madison Avenue's most enduring -- if not hardest-working -- characters: the Maytag repairman. Billed as "the loneliest guy in the world" because the company's products supposedly never break down, he has been portrayed by actor Jesse White since the Iowa-based appliance maker launched the campaign 21 years ago. But next month, at 70, White will hang up his never used tool belt. He will be replaced by actor Gordon Jump, 56, who portrayed radio-station manager Arthur Carlson in the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati. But White is not all washed up. Like many corporate superstars before...
Louis Lopez, 47, leans on crutches against a newspaper kiosk on upper Broadway in Manhattan. He used to be a TV repairman, until he got caught in the cross fire of a gang shoot-out 18 months ago. He collects $370 a month in disability benefits. "How can I live on that? I am a good technician. But as you see, I can't work." Does he drink, use drugs? "No. I can hardly crawl around when I am sober...
Furthermore, he just can't seem to find any job that suits him. Suzanne nags him to go to graduate school, but he is intimidated by her intellect. So he works as a phone repairman yet continually laments his fate and his inability to make the dreaded career choice...
...hill. It's dynamic!" Equally fearless are those riders near Vail, Colo., who take helicopters to the high country or ride the ski lifts up the mountains and then charge through the backcountry trails. "I got into mountain biking to escape," says Jonathan Nardone, 34, a pinball-machine repairman from West Islip, N.Y., who bikes in New England. "I deal with people all day long and want to get into nature...