Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...house, on a larger lot, with more amenities, and still have money left over," says Tucson Developer Peter Herer. The median price of a home there is $65,000, only two-thirds the price in California's Santa Clara Valley. Wages also tend to be lower-an electrical technician in San Jose, Calif., makes an average of $9.77 an hour; his non-union colleague in Colorado Springs makes $7.84-but there are many other compensations. As Albuquerque Mayor David Rusk told TIME Correspondent Michael Moritz: "Refugees from the East and California pull up stakes, take a cut in salary...
Near Golden, Colo., at the Department of Energy's Rocky Flats plant, a technician pushes a red button marked REQUEST TRANSFER. Behind a 10-in.-thick concrete wall, a pair of claws reaches out to grasp a stainless steel container filled with pink powder, then lifts it into a furnace where it is baked at 950° F until it turns into a nondescript gray button three inches in diameter. Such a button could be worth $100,000, for the job of this robot, which goes into regular operation in a few months, is transporting reprocessed plutonium...
Abdelkader Mayouf, 24, a medical technician in the Algerian town of El Asnam, recalled his escape as he gazed upon the ruins of the modern, four-story hospital where he had worked. Mayouf had been luckier than the 300 patients who were trapped in their beds when the earthquake struck...
...ugliness, is beautiful. Having passed through his Brown period (Interiors), Allen emerges in his Black & White period as a spectacular director who masterfully designs long takes and exciting compositions. He enjoys the metaphorical blank screeen, toys with soundtrack blasts and whispers with the control of a superb cinematic technician. One shot, a wide landscape that turns Allen's dancing silhouette into a contemporary fiddler on the roof, is absolutely gorgeous. Allen's expert eye and ear are matched by the steady hand of Gordon Willis (who shot Manhattan) behind the camera...
Across the river, Benjamin Gladney, the popular Medical School media technician who found out in May he would be replaced by an automatic system in May, turned off his projector for good this summer...