"Any landscaper that is worth his salt right now can offer this to his customers," said H. Pat Voges, a spokesman for the Nassau and Suffolk Landscape Gardeners Association, which counts public works and parks departments, landscapers, golf course superintendents, nurserymen, cemetery directors and maintenance people among its 1,562 members.
The bride's father retired as the corporate director of maintenance for Albertson's, a grocery chain based in Boise.
She ended up as the director of maintenance and deputy chief of staff at Air Force headquarters in Washington from 1994 to 1997.
"I've gotten calls from Hawaii, from Canada, from all over California," said John Cimino, the director of maintenance, operations and transportation for the Milpitas Unified School District, northeast of San Jose.
"They do make a durable product," said Ali Khan, the director of maintenance at D'Agostino's, which bought 100 three-wheeled Worksman push carts for its home deliveries.
General Harris had an impressive career in the military, finishing up as the director of maintenance and deputy chief of staff at Air Force headquarters in Washington from 1994 to 1997.
Her father, a civil engineer who retired from the New York City Department of Transportation, is the director of maintenance engineering at Hardesty & Hanover, engineering consultants in New York.
It has also filled some long-vacant executive positions, including director of maintenance, a post that was open for nearly two years.
The witness, N. Wright McCartney Jr., the airline's director of maintenance, said the computer was monitoring part reliability, not safety, and that the three previous jackscrew problems it had found were thought of as reliability and wear problems, not safety problems.
