Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pacific Bell. Cotton wanted to retire two years earlier than he finally did. "I looked at my financial options and realized that it would not be in my best interests," he says. In his two remaining years on the job, he got a promotion from repair technician to business-marketing manager but then was told he had to relocate to San Francisco. Not wanting to leave the area he had called home for 22 years, Cotton opted for a $400,000 cash buyout. With the help of a financial planner, Cotton learned that he and his wife Stacy...
...technician who arrived for work around 10:50 a.m. said, "From the outside, it looked kind of serious. There were a lot of emergency people around...
...cold war also had plenty of action, and the series makes the most of this as well. The failed Hungarian revolution of 1956, for example, provides grim footage and heartbreaking reminiscences. Weeping, an agricultural technician recalls how often he was tempted to leave the barricades, but when he saw the 14- and 15-year-old boys fighting beside him, he could not. "The shame kept me there," he says. Of course, the hot wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and elsewhere offer plenty of drama, and it is exciting to hear a mercenary talk about fighting in Angola. But the real...
...learning his way around another potentially lethal flying machine. Clad in a blue full-body garment shot through with a webwork of cooling tubes, he stepped into a NASA training room at the Johnson Space Center and glanced at a space-shuttle simulator standing in front of him. A technician then helped him struggle into a heavy orange flight suit. Stuffed into the backpack of the 90-lb. pressure garment was a huge load of survival equipment: a life preserver, an emergency food and water supply, a pair of emergency oxygen bottles, a bouquet of rescue beacons and an array...
...There's no information overload here, no crank calls, no Jehovah's Witnesses bugging you and no one trying to rip you off," says Barnett, a former X-ray technician who moved here nine years ago with a bad back and a disability check...