Word: electricians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MITCHELL MAKES PRETTY GOOD MONey for a guy who never went to college: $14.50 an hour as an electrician at a computer firm in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Trouble is, it's the same pay he was earning 13 years ago. Over those years, Mitchell, 49, and his wife and three children had to make adjustments: sending her to work at an oatmeal factory, eating "a little lower on the food chain," turning the thermostat down to 55 degrees and "walking around the house like Indians in blankets." That might have been acceptable, the Mitchells say, if everyone were...
...Department of Facilities and Maintenance dispatched an engineer, an electrician and two custodians to help with the mess...
...being taught about homosexuality in school, and has never discussed it at home. "It probably is important, but to me it's not. It's not something I want to be bothered with." To many adults, letting children know about homosexuality legitimizes it. Says Joseph Dickerson, 52, an electrician from Hightstown, New Jersey: "I disagree with teaching a broad spectrum of life-styles. It may have a tendency to sway some kids. When I was a teenager, if someone introduced me to a different life-style, there's no telling how I would have accepted that...
Last Friday, an electrician visited the house to install a security system. When no one answered the front door, he walked around the house, peering through windows. He thought he saw a mannequin sprawled on the floor, until he noticed a splotch of blood by its ear. When police and the coroner broke down the door, they found Cobain dead on the floor, a shotgun still pointed at his chin and, on a nearby counter, a suicide note penned in red ink, reportedly ending with the words "I love you, I love you," addressed, a source said, to Love...
...background is no-frills working class. He grew up in Mexicali, where his electrician father installed movie screens. A Mexican-government scholarship sent him to Yale, and there he wrote a dissertation about his country's external-debt crisis. Zedillo then came home to a central-bank job, which paved the way for his appointment as Budget Minister and later Education Minister under Salinas. These days he lives in a comfortable though not ostentatious house in Mexico City, a far cry from his childhood home. With his own five children, Zedillo is an avid mountain biker. Though he has been...