Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Workmen are still wandering through the halls, rats are being chased in the basement, and bulletproof glass is being installed in David Letterman's office. Not really bulletproof; that's just the way Letterman likes to describe the protective pane designed to prevent him from accidentally tossing a baseball right through the glass, as he did once at his old NBC office, raining shards on pedestrians below. But Letterman is already gushing over his unfinished suite as if he had just moved into Windsor Castle. "Look at | this," he says, striding into the room in his workaday outfit...
...introduced in the California legislature this year to limit benefits to illegals. Mountjoy explains the strategy: the state cannot stop them from coming, because policing the borders is solely a federal responsibility. So "you have to stop the benefits of coming here: the educational benefits, the health care, the workmen's compensation." None of the bills has yet passed, though one has cleared the state senate. Two were defeated in early votes, but Mountjoy and allies vow to keep trying to push them through...
...Person in Town, she won't. the novel's hero, Sully, a 60-year-old handyman with a bad knee, will enact Good Guy Without a Grain of Sense. Sully's sidekick Rub plays Loyal Shortie with the Brain of a Beagle. The lawyer Wirf, representing Sully in a workmen's comp case, will remain Drunk & Useless...
...fortress in Waco, Texas, Hollywood came calling at the Bethesda Boys Ranch in Mounds, Oklahoma. A set man from Patchett Kaufman Entertainment, a TV production company, drove by to scout out the 160-acre ranch as a possible location. Three days later, a deal was struck, and last week workmen were at the ranch constructing a replica of Koresh's peach-colored compound. Soon federal agents will be surrounding the fortress again, staging another ill- fated assault, retreating once more for a long waiting game -- this time for the TV-movie cameras...
Legendary economist though he was, Smith offered no evidence for this particular hypothesis, nor does the staff. In fact, the father of capitalist theory wrote, "Some workmen, indeed, when they can earn in four days what will maintain them through the week, will be idle the other three...