Word: tradesmen
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...because you've got respect in the community. They know who you are. They don't just see you as some robotic cop depriving people of their liberty." Three other officers are also involved in the club, whose player base is as diverse as the town's-teenagers, teachers, tradesmen, and bureaucrats. Shane Pickett, 19, is one of the club's bright talents and a good role model for younger kids...
...necessary experience is difficult; the pressure to perform is high, as is the turnover; and the best ones always seem to end up with a better-paying job in a large company or in government. Dahlstrom is most comfortable away from the office, out in the ute, visiting cockies, tradesmen and factory managers...
...Teachers, police officers, businessmen, tradesmen, a child-care center owner and religious ministers figure among those accused of buying the images. Several more are believed to have been producing their own child pornography in backyard studios; six have committed suicide after being charged or questioned about their involvement. Away from their computers, the suspects led outwardly normal lives as fathers, husbands, brothers and boyfriends. Deep in what they thought was the anonymity of cyberspace, however, they were amassing huge libraries of images. But theirs were not the only eyes scanning the websites...
...methodical and wry man, Franklin loved making lists. He made lists of rules for his tradesmen's club, of synonyms for being drunk, of maxims for matrimonial happiness and of reasons to choose an older woman as a mistress. Most famously, as a young man, he made a list of personal virtues that he determined should define his life. Following his method, we can get a glimpse of his influence on the American character by looking at the seven defining virtues and traits that he, more than anyone, helped to imprint onto our national fabric...
When he formed his discussion club of fellow tradesmen, known as the Junto, Franklin's first rule was to display humility in conversation. America was to become, as Tocqueville would later point out, a nation of joiners and club formers, and Franklin was the first and foremost of the breed. And although civil and political discourse has been coarsened in recent years, there is still a tradition of Rotary Clubs and high-minded councils dedicated to discussing the common good without resorting to partisan fervor. Franklin decreed that Junto members should put forth their ideas through suggestions and questions, using...