Word: workmanship
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Murphy Jones (James Garner) is a prosperous widower who runs the nearest drugstore. His marble soda fountain and his car, a 1927 Studebaker, express his commitment to solid, old-fashioned workmanship, while the antinuke sticker on the Studi's windshield shows that he too is up-to-date on matters of faith and morals...
...avoid problems like poor workmanship, check references on any contractor you use--and get everything in writing...
...What's startling is the sheer variety of workmanship, from the spiral stone carvings of the chambered mounds of County Meath in Ireland, to the huge mortice - and - tenoned pedestals of the island of Menorca. The Scandinavians stood their stones in boat formation; the Portuguese shaped them like eggs. What they had in common is that tribal leaders put them there to prove they'd picked the right spot, says Cope. "They mythologized it for being flood - free, fertile and safe. That's a universal response." Archaeologists might well pick holes in his arguments; they lent an indulgent...
...Angeles, Koi Suwannagate, 35, sends "pickers" to yard sales to dig up old cashmere sweaters, which she cuts up and then resews into one-of-a-kind creations. "I look at it like an art piece," says Suwannagate, whose prices ($800 to $1,700 for a sweater) reflect intense workmanship--two days, with the help of two sewers, are needed for each sweater...
...Suddenly, people remembered that the Russians, despite a reputation for clunky hardware and slipshod workmanship, had been flying capsules with a perfect safety record since 1971, and the U.S. had never lost a capsule crew in flight, though it had lost the Apollo 1 crew to a launch-pad fire and nearly lost Apollo 13 on its way to the moon. Though a capsule was no guarantee of safety, and nothing really could be in an inherently dangerous business, the laws of physics that govern inertia and aerodynamics favor a five-ton bell-shaped capsule over a 100-ton winged...