Word: workman
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...huge population of drinkers come to campus with plenty of experience drinking," said Thomas A. Workman, communications coordinator for the University of Nebraska's program to reduce binge drinking. "The conversion rate [to heavy drinking] is quite small...
Philadelphia Local 22 Firemen's and Paramedics Union (Thursday, August 3): A demonstration urging workman's compensation to cover hepatitis C care and testing. The group says firemen and paramedics are at a higher risk for hepatitis C, which causes inflammation of the liver and, if untreated, can lead to death...
...Fort Madison, while rehabbing a storefront, a workman peeled back an atrocious-looking aluminum facade and found carved wooden columns and stained-glass windows beneath. Several townsfolk heard the news and strolled over to celebrate the discovery of the buried treasure. Later in the day, there was a buzz at the Ivy Bake Shoppe, and upstairs, in Martha Wolf's sprawling Early American loft, the view of the Mississippi, which widens to nearly a mile beneath the old swing-span bridge, was stunning...
While no one's taking vows of poverty, working for love more than money is clearly hip with online employers. "I'm not sure the message has got out to the masses, but the gold rush is over," says Lesley Workman, CEO of Urbanite Networks in San Francisco. "If you hire someone who's in it for the money, you can be sure they're going to get calls from 700 headhunters a week. That's not the basis of a good relationship...
...workman here the other day," Laybourne says at her office in Oxygen's loftlike downtown Manhattan headquarters (very new-media-start-up, very exposed-pipes-and-brick). "He said, 'Hmmm. Network for women. What're you going to do, fashion?'" Not exactly. When the channel launches on Feb. 2 (the date, 02/02, plays off the chemical symbol for oxygen), it will offer a mix of talk shows, comedy and women-oriented finance, sports and consumer shows, from a positive, sister-solidarity perspective. What "fashion" there is comes in forms like a comic riff on the empowering influence of a little...