Word: surveyor
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...Earl Dudley Associates in Birmingham, Ala., 10 fans do little to tame the 97-degree heat. Last weekend, four of the surveyor supply company's air conditioning units were mined for their copper coils. Six other businesses on their block languish with open doors, waiting for their air conditioner replacements. "I'd just like five minutes alone with the guys who did it," says sales manager Mike Smith, as he wiped sweat from his brow...
...Many of Moore's 5,500 colleagues labor in cavernous horizontal tunnels that are bored into the granite mesas. To the worker, the test site represents not a nuclear underworld but a well-paid job. "You get used to it, feels like home," says Don Maxwell, 44, an underground surveyor. "Nice and warm in the winter, cool in the summer...
...Bare light bulbs dangle overhead, and the brilliant flare of a welder's torch flickers on the rock walls. Labyrinthine cables coil along the floor, and the tunnel reverberates with a sometimes deafening din, punctuated by shouts and horn blasts. In an eerily normal scene near ground zero, a surveyor chats on a Touch-Tone wall phone. The atmosphere is that of an underground lab rather than a staging ground for Armageddon...
...quirky immigrant named Anhil who sends up the foibles of Americans in broken English. ("America has two kinds of politicians--one has sex, the other has war--which do you like?") They become fast friends. When a sinkhole opens up near Richard's house, a quirky surveyor comes to survey it. A quirky neighbor girl's horse falls into it. A quirky, Brad Pitt-- like movie star who lives next door rescues the horse. And so on. When Richard moves to a new house (because of the sinkhole), the man next door just happens to be a reclusive, fantastically famous...
...Lincoln works on a river flatboat, then moves to New Salem, Ill., and works as a clerk and a surveyor. Interest in politics begins...