Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to be, if only for a few glorious minutes. Between bouts, the theme from Rocky comes up on the sound system. But there seem to be as many Martys fighting-folks at loose ends just looking for something to do. Randy McDoniels, 32, an unemployed construction worker, and Steve Slaymaker, 31, a heavy-equipment operator, are fighting, according to Randy, "just for the good times." Others stepping onto the scale express similar reasons: "Hell, my friends are doing it," or "We're out for some laughs...
Both Salas and Ranare seem to be out for more than a lark-or the winner-take-all $10 prize money (losers get a couple of free drinks). Salas, a railway shipping worker, comes to fight "to get the fears inside of me out." Ranare, who grew up in the South Bronx, came to Arizona a year ago to beat a heroin habit, which, happily, he did. "My idea," he says, "is to work out my frustrations from work and from the old lady." Though the club tries to match fighters evenly, any two people who want to fight each...
...coaches weren't the only ones pleased with the team's new addition. "Mauro's a great kid to have on the team. He's a good hard worker, open to suggestion all the time and willing to learn," captain Jim Langton said...
...youth in the union wanted to hold out for the pension--only the gray-haired people were clapping after the vote," one worker who asked to remain unidentified said last night...
...sign the contract, Harvard may take away benefits from us," one worker said...