Word: fitters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officer, a position he had held since 1983. While he will remain chairman, Haggett turned over to president Duane Fitzgerald day-to-day responsibility for the company, whose work force of 10,400 makes it the largest employer in Maine. Haggett, the son of a Bath Iron Works pipe fitter, said he relinquished control because he had failed to set a strong moral example when he copied the sensitive Navy document...
...have better skill players, and we were a much fitter team this time," Kingston noted. "We were holding our own in the line...
...pipe fitter from a working-class suburb of Paris, Tapie carried sacks of coal as a youngster to help pay the family's rent. He graduated from a second-rate engineering school rather than from one of the grandes ecoles that train France's business and bureaucratic elite. For a decade, he has been challenging the country's risk-averse Establishment; his specialty is reviving troubled companies in niche industries. Tapie once had a popular TV show on which he preached, "Create companies and earn big money through entrepreneurship." The program was unabashedly named Ambition, and his best- selling book...
...their own way to competitions around the world. At the vineyards' tournament, Dublin's Williams, a musician and graphics designer, was defeated by Debbie Cornelius, a secretary from England who had played a dairy farmer and an engineer. Players in Central Park included a bar owner, a steam fitter, a hairdresser, the maitre d' at New York City's Rainbow Room and Wall Street types...
...Arpad Goncz, author and playwright. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1956 and released under a 1963 amnesty. Unable to publish, he worked as a pipe fitter...