After working briefly in the restaurant business, Mr. Muratovic, who had worked in construction back home, became a handyman and a superintendent for a commercial building in Queens.
He was earning €10 (£8.30) a day in construction back home.
Other old friends in the building who'd known him from the neighborhood back when — back when he still worked in construction, back when he was a nice, easygoing guy's guy — eventually stopped visiting him.
The dispute over the fate of Vermont Yankee arose just as the Obama administration was promoting a revival of nuclear plant construction backed by billions of dollars in federal loan guarantees.
Rubio's star name was bought by Del Webb, a construction company, back in 1993, Stolpe said.
Though he was a smoker, I suspect his illness was largely brought on by chemical exposure as a construction rigger back in pre-OSHA days.
Had he not wandered into the post office, O'Neill says, he would have wound up in the construction business back in Alaska, where he had gone to high school and met his wife.
UK construction bounced back in September, according to the latest Markit/Cips survey, with its purchasing managers' index rising to a better-than-expected 52.3 from 49.2 in August, the first increase since March.
New-home construction pulled back in October, with housing starts down 10.6% to an annual rate of 529,000.
Spanish sisters, Alicia and Esther Koplowitz took over their late father's multi-million dollar construction business back in 1989, though they eventually split up to do their own thing.
It puts currently unemployed construction trades back in the labor force almost immediately while laying a solid foundation upon which to grow a more robust energy-efficiency retrofit industry over the long term, and create high-quality jobs.
