Meanwhile, bands of workers and volunteers — armed with crowbars, sledgehammers and chainsaws — continued to dig through the debris of wood, metal and plastic that blanketed the city.
And that is why Sheffield now features roving bands of workers with hand-saws, sneaking onto people's property in the dead of night to chop branches into the road (and sometimes on top of legally parked cars).
If but a small band of workers is toiling now, more than 200 will soon occupy the site.
This is a double burden: benefits for growing numbers of pensioners will have to be paid for by a shrinking band of workers.
Since nobody was going to hire his sometimes fragile, often eccentric band of workers, Colón decided he needed to become a businessman.
Divorced and having a hard time keeping up a connection with his kids, Richard would like to believe that his small band of workers think of themselves as a family, despite much evidence to the contrary.
If debt continues to grow as the economy contracts, it will become even harder to bear.Secondly, a dwindling band of workers will have to support rising social-security payments, as the number of retired people grows.
The biggest part of the solution lies in expanding the shrinking band of workers, mainly by getting people to retire later and persuading even more women to take up paid employment.
Determined not to lay off any of her tight-knit band of workers, Ms. Allen is now agonizing over an equally unappealing option: whether to terminate the health benefits she provides for her employees and herself.
MR. FBANCIS JAMES SELBY, C. B. E., one of the small band of workers who formed the staff of the National Physical Laboratory in its early days and helped to develop it from small beginnings to an institution of world-wide renown, died on March 5.
Le Breton's husband, Robin, could easily star in "Little House in the Jungle" as he organizes a band of workers to clear the fields, set up a dairy and build a barn and then a new house, complete with flower-filled courtyard and bathing pool.
