Word: plumber
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...Newsweek article, is yes. Many of these experts think that male intellectual habits are ruined as early as the age of five when we are, by long tradition, first exposed to our mushroom-eating, fireball-throwing friend Super Mario. Within only days of our first encounter with this Italian plumber, we have already defeated King Bowser and have beaten at least three other games in their entirety. Meanwhile, girls of the same age are learning how to tie their shoes and dreaming of True Love. So what is it about the male brain that gives us enough eye-hand coordination...
Michael V. Tucci ’06 and Joshua R. Klimkiewicz ’06, residents of Leverett’s D entryway, which contains the dining hall, said they awoke to the sound of a plumber knocking on their door to investigate possible links between plumbing problems and the flood...
...aimed at creating a single market for the E.U.'s j8 trillion service sector. The law will allow a service provider to comply only with the laws of his or her home country when doing business in another E.U. member state. It was this plan that made "the Polish plumber" the symbol of France's fears at the time of the referendum last year, and which brought 60,000 protesters onto the streets of Brussels last March. Labor unions and their supporters see this week's vote as critical, and plan massive demonstrations outside the Strasbourg Parliament. Monica Frassoni...
...POVERTY. WHY HAS YOUR LIFE BEEN DIFFERENT? My parents and grandparents. We always had a sense of achieving things instilled in us. I've never been on the dole, even when I was unemployed. If your community has a sewerage problem, go away and learn how to become a plumber, then come back and fix the sewerage. It seems simple...
...working life, voted for George W. Bush in 2004 because Bush "was trying to do a good job." Ask him how he feels now, and you get a different answer. "If he was running again, I wouldn't vote for him," says the 61-year-old retired plumber from Eureka, Calif. Why not? Medicare's new prescription-drug benefit is too complicated, he says, adding that "the government seems more concerned about drug companies making a profit than the people getting insured...