Word: technician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squad of Guardian Angels in red berets helped propel the 39-year-old electronics technician through the turbulent crowds outside and hustle him back to his bachelor apartment. Still ahead lies a September sentencing of up to seven years in prison for illegal possession of a gun, plus multimillion- dollar damage suits filed against him by three of his four victims...
...postdoctoral work in Norway, "letting me know in the subtlest, happiest way imaginable that I would not be joining her there as we had planned upon completion of my degree." Being jilted is nothing new, as nearly everyone who has ever lived could testify, but Al takes a laboratory technician's interest in his own ensuing depression. He quits graduate school and renounces all plans for his future, meanwhile recording the relevant data of his rebellion: "So what I started that day was apparently a series of impulses which qualified for my interest if I could detect no point...
...trial opened last week, Goetz, 39, an electronics technician, faced 13 criminal charges, including four for attempted murder. Defense Attorney Barry Slotnick insisted, however, that Goetz "was the real victim in this case." Slotnick announced that he planned to defend his client by "prosecuting" the four "vicious predators" who surrounded Goetz on the subway car. Despite an admonition from Judge Stephen Crane, Slotnick referred to Goetz's victims as "drug addicts" and attempted to bring up their criminal records. (Two of the four are in jail on other charges, one for the rape of an adolescent girl, and a third...
Butcher studied to be a veterinary technician in Denver, after which she moved to Alaska, homesteaded in the Wrangell Mountains, and started to raise and train sled dogs. She and her husband David L. Monson now own a kennel of 150 dogs in their Alaskan home. They live in a log cabin, 12 x 16 feet, without running water. Butcher melts ice in the winter, draws water from a nearby stream in the summer, and generates a limited supply of electricity. The closest neighbor is more than six miles away, mail is 25 miles away, and Fairbanks--the nearest town...
...lived away," she says, "I would be miserable still teaching." Her mother concurs, "It's ridiculous for the kids to pay all that money for rent. It makes sense for kids to stay at home." Bradley Kulat, 25, makes about $20,000 a year as an equipment technician in a hospital. That is enough to support a modest household, but he chooses to live at his parents' split- level ranch house outside Chicago, as does his sister Pamela, 20, who commutes to a nearby college. He admits to expensive tastes. He recently bought an $8,000 car and also owns...