Word: hardhats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than building factories and buying new equipment, businesses would look for bargains in used plants and machines. That would mean less work for contractors, carpenters and other members of construction crews. Richard Snow, director of the Associated General Contractors of Greater Milwaukee, conceded that area contractors were worried. "No hardhat is going to take a dive off an unfinished apartment building," he said, "but this crash could have serious effects down the road...
...drink any given brand of beer. It is socially unacceptable to invite the head of your law firm over for dinner, pour him a glass of mouthwatering, buck-a-six-pack brew and expect to get that partnership you richly deserve. It is similarly unwise to walk into a hardhat bar somewhere in Chelsea, order a Corona and then bitch loudly when you don't get a lemon to rub ever so delicately over the mouth of the bottle. In essence, your brand of beer defines your image...
...authenticity relies less on cultural drama than on a coarse documentary-like artlessness that is assaulting at times with its "realistic" zeal. Instead of Jessica Lange courageously battling hurricanes and mortgage collectors in western-chic jeans, one has a homely June going off to the mines in her hardhat and baggy overalls. No glamorous hardships here...
Reagan unabashedly used Scoop, but did so in a way that honored his memory, his family and his country. The President threw out his big arms and gathered everybody in-Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative, Jew, Baptist, old, young, hawk, dove, hardhat, tycoon. And none of them could argue, only lean back and enjoy the political theater that Reagan had adroitly and effortlessly stage-managed...
...worker testified against Sanzo and Petito. A former blasters' union bookkeeper who took the stand last week said that Sanzo had cashed paychecks made out to no-shows. The defense claims that the no-show scheme was really a matter of "other-shows": to conceal extra income one hardhat would work under a colleague's name...