Word: workmen
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...sound of the Olympic games for me has always been John Williams' Olympic Fanfare and Theme. But since this spring those strains have been replaced by the clack and crumble of workmen with pickaxes leveling a wall outside my window at dawn...
...either any harm in reaching their targets. And their younger rivals are boosting their own names on the global stage. Imperial College, which celebrated its centenary last year, aims to pull in $410 million by 2010 to improve its campuses and bolster scholarships. Across town at the LSE, workmen are putting the finishing touches to an eight-story teaching facility, financed from the $200 million whip-round among alumni and other donors completed in March...
...Billed as a return to the golden era of railways, workmen are putting the finishing touches to a $1.6 billion refurbishing of the Victorian station once hailed as the greatest of its kind, but almost lost to the developers' bulldozers during the 1960s...
...neighborhood on a bend in the Tigris, when a taxicab exploded. The residents of al-Amel hid in their houses during a firefight between an armed gang and the Iraqi army as U.S. Apache attack helicopters provided cover overhead. Meanwhile, the Shaab market echoed with the sound of workmen shoveling glass and rubble onto flatbed trucks, cleaning up from the day before (which was a bad day because two suicide bombers exploded themselves in a crowd of shoppers, killing at least 82 and wounding scores more...
...suggested that, with the influx of East Europeans, Catholicism could soon be the dominant religion in Britain, which hasn't been the case since, oh, 1550. Construction on the 2012 Olympic sites in London is about to ramp up, providing more jobs. Many Poles in London are "well-qualified workmen with very good experience," says Adam Wasilewski, a Polish immigrant who has invested in his own stoneware business in London and who hires mainly Poles. Tesco and Sainsbury's, the British supermarket chains, are stocking up on Polish brands...