Word: machiniste
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...victory two days earlier in the 100-m freestyle, where Biondi holds the world record. At the postrace press conference, Popov was asked how it was possible to succeed amid the chaos of the former Soviet ( Union. "We were preparing in the worst conditions ever," agreed the curly- locked machinist's son. "But that did not do us any harm. On the contrary, it made us more aggressive." With a flash of bravado, he added, "If the American team wants to win more medals, we say to them, 'Come and train in Russia...
...became something of an electrician and something of a machinist," he says, looking far more the aging academic in wire-rimmed glasses, a short beard and a linen shirt...
Really. His father is an unemployed machinist...
...very frightening," says Richard Whitehead, 45, a machinist and layoff victim at the company's Pratt & Whitney jet-engine plant. "When you're told that your job is lost, your feelings just go cold. For my trade," he adds, "there's nothing else out there. I don't know what...
...quite what we wanted--Eastern Airlines went out of business last week, two years after the company filed for bankruptcy after the eastern machinist's union went on strike, and two years after The Harvard Crimson's weather slug admonished readers for several days, "Don't dare fly Eastern...