Word: tradesmen
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...demonstrators outside the embassy were a ragtag bunch. Their rank included cancer survivors, unemployed tradesmen and an elderly woman too wobbly to manage both a protest placard and a cane - in short, precisely the people socialized health care is designed to save. Jon Burden, whose wife's breast cancer is in remission, said he wanted critics to know that "without the NHS either my wife would be dead or I would be broke...
These days, though, with hungry tradesmen chasing fewer homeowner dollars, consumers who may not know the difference between a nail and a hammer have the upper hand. If you've got the money, someone who knows his way around a band saw has got the time, and often at a very good price. And chances are, depending on where you live - best spots: the West Coast and the Northeast - he'll be right over...
...negative. An orphan, he was raised by an uncle in Bordeaux and worked as a cabin boy on transatlantic steamers before trying his hand at acting and painting. He retained his bohemian affection for the working man, and - much like French foes of globalization today - worried about the petty tradesmen and merchants threatened by modernization and the rise of big Paris department stores. Thus, the Bibliothèque Nationale show includes affectionate portraits of herb sellers, junk dealers and wine merchants, as well as shots of the horse-drawn buses and cabriolets that were vanishing as the automotive age dawned...
Einstein was descended, on both parents' sides, from Jewish tradesmen and peddlers who had, for at least two centuries, made modest livings in the rural villages of Swabia in southwestern Germany. With each generation they had become increasingly assimilated into the German culture they loved--or so they thought. Although Jewish by cultural designation and kindred instinct, they had little interest in the religion itself...
...park, they soon felt at home in the Left Bank apartment they rented for $4,500 a month. As Conlon became a familiar face, butchers shared culinary tips and cheesemongers gave her extra samples. Plumb, 49, became a habitué of a hole-in-the-wall café frequented by local tradesmen and accompanied Conlon on explorations around the city. "Chip discovered walks through Paris were even better than walks around a golf course," says Conlon...