Word: roadworker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost alone among boxers, Tyson has no entourage. It seems to be the only cliche he has avoided. He does his predawn roadwork by himself on the boardwalk, grateful for the solitude. "I don't have any friends. I get paranoid around a lot of people. I can't relax." Besides Rooney and Cutman Matt Baranski, only Steve Lott is admitted to the inner sanctum. "I'm the spit-bucket man," Lott says with shining eyes. "I would give my life for that." He was a handball buddy of Jimmy Jacobs', an honored player who died at 58 last March...
...depth of neighborhood opposition to Salvucci's plan is due to what Mieth calls its "completely new impacts," resulting from the elevated roadwork, the increased number of major highway lanes and the taking of open space involved...
...Reagan Administration announced that in addition to $3.4 million in disaster relief, the U.S. Government will give Grenada $30 million in long-term economic and military aid. Some of the money is already being spent by the interim government, which has sought to create 1,000 jobs in roadwork, school construction and sanitary maintenance. U.S. Army Engineers have helped with these projects, and are repairing asphalt and rock-crushing machinery used by Grenadian work crews...
...weeks ago, surrounded by co-stars and dignitaries, facing the Instamatic strobe pops of several hundred noisy admirers. "This is just like a scene from the movie," he pronounced, in a voice that echoed Marlon Brando's punchy Terry Malloy from On the Waterfront. Rocky did roadwork on the museum steps in the first picture. In III he unveils a statue of himself on the same spot, his gift to the city. Now Stallone was preparing to do the same in reality...
...never out of the gym. All along, he has worked with his boys, two sons and two nephews. Brags the father: "I'm so much a boxer, I sire boxers." For 18 years, Joe, now 37, has never been able to sleep past the 4 a.m. hour of roadwork, whether or not he did the roadwork. "I keep boxing time in my head," he says, "and in my music." (He sings, badly...