As in much of the city, improvement was in the air as workers prepared foundations for a pair of new homes.
The key is not to push it too much, but to develop the theory - which is every social worker's foundation - in the classroom and then apply that to a real-life setting.
Many members of the hotel staff had started with the hotel as construction workers, digging foundations and painting walls.
One former school official recalled that workers poured the foundation during such heavy rains that it collapsed.
No less care is being devoted by foundation workers to the surrounding outdoors bordered by the bay and Black Walnut Creek.
Mantangana says foundation workers visited people at their homes to persuade them that multivitamins could cure HIV and Aids.
When you buy a new home, you put all the excavators and concrete foundation workers, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, roofers, siders, window manufacturers to work.
Sara Horowitz, founder of the Freelancers Union, an 80,000-member group based in Brooklyn that provides health and disability insurance to freelance workers, praised the foundation's work.
Eizenberg is president of Educational Travel Alliance, a company based in Wellesley, Mass., which he started in 1998 largely to make arrangements for Americans — scholars, performers, foundation workers and the like — to travel to Cuba.
Perhaps the busiest group at the courthouse was the gang of construction workers digging the foundation of what will eventually be a new court building at a site next door.
A machinist operating an eight-ton pile driver was pounding steel sheeting into the ground for a retaining wall, creating cave-in protection for workers finishing the foundation for the bridge.
