"Working seven days a week is much too tough for the Germans," explained Mr. Bulag, who has been organizing the transport of what he called his "brigades" of workers to this farm for the past six years.
They would stop to admire the begonia pots, take pictures of the walls that had been the scenes of the vengeful executions … brigades of workers had carefully erased the bullet marks".
The United States Open is not ready to install retractable roofs over its stadiums, even though it lost nearly three days of play to rain last year and was the butt of jokes for its low-tech method of drying hardcourts with towel-wielding brigades of workers.
In a small side room, a brigade of experienced workers quality-tested the merchandise by smoking it.
The network has set up an anti-trafficking brigade of social workers, lawyers and community members to identify and report cases of trafficking.
Brigades of government workers and residents, wearing thick boots and surgical masks, are shoveling the red muck into trucks and hosing down homes and roads.
On a crisp, still day, this fresh crop of bereavement was reluctantly harvested by brigades of social workers and city employees at a family center set up at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
They have not, tsk tsk, been filling out their census forms, so the government has had to dispatch brigades of temporary workers to ring doorbells and make sure everyone is recorded.
The unionization drive calls itself the Clean Carwash Campaign and has created a brigade of former carwash workers, many of whom had been fired for backing a union.
Shock brigades of soldier-workers have been racing to complete the Masik Pass Ski Resort, a megaproject designed to attract foreign tourists and encourage "cheerful laughter under socialism", in the words of the official news agency KCNA.
