Word: electricians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...probably afraid somebody'd hit them with a bar stool." A reasonable fear, if pollsters are right about the level of voter disgust with the budget debacle. "Will I pay new, higher taxes, even if I think they're unfair?" asks Will Brennan, a business representative for the electrician's union in Chicago. "What choice do I have? I can't go throw tea in the harbor...
...hope of halting the country's growing political polarization. In the end, Mazowiecki was swayed by the argument that Walesa, who forced Jaruzelski to resign, should not be allowed simply to steamroller his way into power. No matter what the outcome, the fight between Walesa, the former shipyard electrician, and Mazowiecki, the former newspaper editor, ends the alliance between workers and intellectuals that helped topple communism in Poland...
...physics department electrician Ralph Stanley said he was not sure that bottled water was any safer than tap water, since he discovered a great deal of pollution while cleaning out bottled water dispensers in Jefferson Hall last year...
...Time were looking for one man who did break up the old bloc, it would have to go back to the beginning of the decade, when an electrician named Lech Walesa was trying to organize a union called Solidarity in the Gdansk shipyards...