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...result, the Crimson backs felt free to overlap into offensive roles and take shots, and sweeper Miles Welch, the last line of defense before Ginsburg, who was as lonely as a Maytag repairman most of the afternoon, played most of the second half almost on the midfield line...
...Where are [investors] going to take that money? To Mobile, Alabama, to open a non-union business?" said air conditioner repairman and SYE member Keith Manning...
...railroad-station agent in North Redwood, Minn., Sears bought a consignment of gold-filled pocket watches that had been rejected by a local jeweler, resold them to other station agents at a $2 profit apiece and founded the R.W. Sears Watch Co. A year later he added a watch repairman, Alvah C. Roebuck, to his staff. In 1888 came the initial catalog, containing only watches. In 1894, though, the first real Sears, Roebuck catalog appeared. The cover of its 507 pages blared: "Cheapest Supply House on Earth. Our Trade Reaches Around the World...
...increasing number of home buyers viewed the ARM as the niftiest invention since aluminum siding. In November 1982, Houstonites Sheila and Bert Christensen would have been unable to afford their four-bedroom house at the daunting 15% going rate for a conventional mortgage. But with an ARM, the computer repairman and his wife paid an initial rate of just 11⅞% on their $85,000 home. Now they wish they had never heard of ARMS. Last January their lender boosted the rate to 12½%, raising the monthly payment from $750 to $825. The sudden increase, which amounted...
...detective and falls for "evidence" of his wife's infidelity. Once deserted by his own younger wife, the detective shows Claude videotapes showing some amorphous Argyle sock clad man leaving his luxurious apartment late at night. Still retaining his facade of trust. Claude suggests the man could be a "repairman." At 1.00 in the morning? "The only thing that breaks at that time of the morning," the detective says, "are the hearts of men like us." Fitting every scrap of evidence into his now increasingly suspicious mind, Claude concludes the socks of his wife's lover belong to Max Stein...