Word: electricians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more important at ABC, which was No. 1 in the important 18-to-49 age group this season, but the family orientation will be ( stronger than ever. Among the configurations that will be explored in ABC sitcoms next fall: a widow trying to raise four kids (Thea), an unemployed electrician turned househusband (Joe's Life); a divorced mother of three (Grace Under Fire); and a retired boxer -- played by former heavyweight champion George Foreman -- with a wife, two kids and a job counseling troubled junior-high students (George...
...shooting seemed equally ill-suited for his performance. Born and raised in Pensacola, Michael Griffin graduated from high school and enlisted in the Navy without anyone thinking he was anything but well-spoken and quiet. After serving five years as an electrician, he returned home and later married Patricia Ann Presley on June 10, 1981, in Brewton, Alabama. (A few years earlier, David Gunn had worked in the local hospital there, delivering babies.) The Griffins had two daughters and moved back to Pensacola in 1987; he got a job as a chemical operator on a polymer-casting line with Monsanto...
...palm trees and large paychecks dancing in his head, he sent Roblan a $295 fee, told his landlord he'd be moving soon, sold the family furniture and even parted with his cherished dirt bike. He was so confident of a job that he got an out-of-work electrician friend, Roy Allen, and Roy's father to sign up. As soon as the three had paid their fees, however, the trouble started. They say Roblan began evading their phone calls and later reneged on the promises made by the phone-sales staff. Only Roy got a job offer -- which...
...legally, few deliver on their promises of $70,000-plus jobs in exotic locales. Only an estimated 2% of their + customers ever get a job. Police say refunds are rare. "I'd like to see these guys rot in hell," says Bill Dwyer, a 43-year-old New Jersey electrician who scrounged together $295 after a Florida job agency told him he would have a choice of assignments in Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Acapulco, Mexico. Out of work for three years, he dreamed of sending his kids to college. "It was all wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, until they...
...Goldenberg, soon to be Sam Gordon, paterfamilias, returns from World War II to his wife Eve and his two-year-old daughter Susan. He is a skilled electrician, a confirmed workaholic, and he provides his growing family with a new house on Long Island, N.Y., a Cadillac, a boat -- everything but a fatherly presence. When he is not puttering with a new speedboat, he is climbing through the ranks at the local Masonic temple. Eve, a former singer at Catskill resorts, raises her three daughters and son on the Don't-let-Daddy-know principle. The children say there were...