Word: electricians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...techniques are like two sides of a coin. In the first, Black applies a mild electric current to a part of the body--the wrist, for example--and then touches electrodes to exposed brain areas. It is like an electrician testing a circuit: wherever he picks up current, he knows he has a live connection, indicating that the tumor is entwined with eloquent brain and cannot just be cut out. Otherwise, he is touching inert tumor tissue. Conversely, with direct stimulation, Black applies the current to the tumor and sees if the body twitches in response...
Then one day he didn't come. "Where is my mocha?" grumbled one electrician and grip after another, intimidating tools dangling off their belts. The drastic announcement was made. In a cost-cutting measure, the Mocha Man would come only three times a week. The crew, faced with a question of survival, took matters into their own hands...
Belleville's gambling scars run even deeper, as the Monday-night meetings of the local Gamblers Anonymous chapter testify. Among those telling their stories: a former electrician who says he would start arguments with his wife "so I could just leave the house" to gamble; a convenience-store manager whose addiction led her to embezzle $18,000; and a parcel-service driver, Marge Alexander, whose compulsion destroyed a life of on-time mortgage payments and perfect work attendance. Two of the three started behind the video-poker machines; all three ended up contemplating suicide. But Belleville remains oddly immune...
...they saw was for a new drainage system, when in fact he was creating cells to house his kidnap victims. Prosecutors were criticized for taking a lax approach to the case, treating the missing girls' parents as annoyances. Left unanswered was the most disturbing question -- whether Dutroux, an unemployed electrician who still managed to maintain several homes, and others received official protection from highly-placed political figures. Commissioners said only that they had uncovered "indications of possible protection" and said further inquiry was needed. That's scant comfort for the more than 250,000 thousand outraged Belgians who rallied last...
...gasoline price hike into perspective [BUSINESS, May 13]. In 1941 when I was 18, I paid 18[cents] to 20[cents] per gal. for my 1933 Plymouth. In 1941 I was earning 40[cents] an hour as an electrician's helper. So I worked half an hour to buy a gallon of gasoline. Compute your hourly earning against the present gasoline price for each gallon; gas is cheaper now than it was then. JIM CURRAN High Island, Texas...