Word: longshoreman
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...golden gut at Interscope belongs to Iovine. The son of a longshoreman, he grew up on Brooklyn's tough streets and still has the switchblade tongue to prove it. A lean, wary man and one of the few record executives who looks natural in jeans and a baseball cap, Iovine pulled himself up to become a trusted producer for Bruce Springsteen...
...been everything from a longshoreman to a film director and has played everyone from Thurgood Marshall to Simon of Cyrene, so SIDNEY POITIER's new role shouldn't be that much of a stretch. The actor has been named the Bahamian ambassador to Japan. Poitier has dual American-Bahamian citizenship (his parents were Bahamian tomato farmers who sold their produce in Florida, where he was born). The job does not come with an embassy in Tokyo, and Poitier will practice his diplomacy from the comfort of his own home. But he did pay a visit to Emperor Akihito to present...
Three days after she was elected chairwoman of the N.A.A.C.P., Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, rushed home from Washington to be with her critically ill husband Walter Williams, a retired longshoreman. He died the next day of cancer...
Meanwhile, the city's bustling port is at 100% capacity and in need of expansion. Expanding the port would bring tremendous new business to the city; in addition to construction jobs, the port expansion would create hundreds of fulltime jobs for longshoreman, who's pay starts at $19 an hour. Yet these high paying jobs will have to wait, since the stadium drive has monopolized all infrastructure resources...
...Longshoreman Buck Helm, who spent four days in a tomb of I-880 concrete and steel, was in criticalstable condition at Highland General Hospital in Oakland with some slight improvement, hospital officials said...