Word: technician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People treading water, looking for a break. For them the open road beckons as a great new beginning. "I'll make my husband's $45,000 within two years," whispers Goodrum. She and a friend have enrolled so they can travel the country with their trucker husbands. An appliance technician is here because "there are too many technicians in Fort Worth." The pilot "wants to see life on the ground" and sock away a retirement kitty...
...downtown Greensboro, a marker notes the 1960 Woolworth's sit-ins by black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University students. "Sure, you can't come in here as a black man and not feel a sense of history," says Terry Woods, a technician, as he sits at a once segregated lunch counter. "We get along with whites here," says Woods, 33. "I am not going to vote for a man because of the color of his skin." But, he adds, "I do like Jesse, because I like to think that one day a black man will be there...
...nearly four years Richard Farley, 39, a computer software technician in California's Silicon Valley, had failed to win the affection of Laura Black, 26, a fellow worker at ESL, an electronics firm in Sunnyvale. But he got her involuntary attention by following and harassing her. In 1986 he reportedly was fired from the company after threatening to kill her. Three weeks ago, Black asked a court to order him to stay away from her, and a temporary injunction was granted. Said Black in her complaint: "I have been afraid of what this man might...
...chorus girl, Livingstone worked as a lab technician before entering politics. He became a folk hero for many Laborites in 1981, when he was elected leader of the Greater London Council. Livingstone turned the council, responsible for such matters as public transit, garbage collection and social welfare projects, into the biggest-spending local government Britain had ever seen. He attracted headlines by doling out tax funds to every group imaginable, including a gay community center, a Welsh harp society, a graffiti workshop and an organization called Babies Against the Bomb. The council declared London a nuclear-free zone, earning plaudits...
...office on Capitol Hill. In New York, CBS staff members watched Bush walk into his office accompanied by Ailes and Fuller. CBS had set up a monitor in Bush's office so that he could watch the five-minute introductory report. "You may want to see this," said one technician. As he watched the first teaser for the interview -- "Still to come, a live interview with Mr. Bush on arms to Iran and money to the contras" -- Bush got steamed. "If that's all it's about," he announced to the technicians in his office, "they're going to find...