Word: electricians
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Just a few miles from central London, home to the spectacular new Tate Modern and million-dollar apartments that reflect the prosperous, optimistic side of Tony Blair's Britain, Paddy Brunton spent his final days in a rather different country. Brunton, 80, a former BBC electrician, developed blood clots in his heart and lungs in February. After an eight-hour wait for a bed, he was admitted to a 20-patient ward at the Whittington Hospital in north London, one of the top 40 in Britain...
...jury: Four women and three men, chosen in a surprisingly expeditious impaneling Monday. Since the government is the defendant, an actual jury was legally unnecessary but helpful in making it look as if justice is served (the alternative is a federal judge). A gym teacher, an electrician, a homemaker, an accountant, a secretary, a landlord and a retired Army sergeant - these seven have the task of sorting through 51 days of mounting frustrations and one of bloody mayhem, and assigning blame for an outcome that nobody was proud...
...late 1980s. These were discount Names too, Lloyd's having lowered the net worth needed to become a Name to substantially below $1 million. The lower bar gave entry to investors such as Shirley Cook, a third-grade teacher from Texas, and Elizabeth Bencsics, the wife of an electrician in New Mexico, who lost big chunks of their life savings. "At school we were taught that there was nothing more honorable than Lloyd's of London," Bencsics says. "I was thrilled to be part...