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The next step would be courses in literacy and Islam, followed by a manual-labor job.
Karzai to seek Obama's approval for peace deals with insurgents 2010
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Strictly manual-labor level, hauling 5-gallon buckets full of sap out of the frozen woods on foot.
The redpolls abideth forever jhetley 2009
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Back in my manual-labor days, they used to say, “A good big man is better than a good little man.”
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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The point here is to associate VW vehicles with a working-class, manual-labor version of real-man masculinity.
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Back in my manual-labor days, they used to say, “A good big man is better than a good little man.”
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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The researchers found that most professions show wage premiums for college athletes: ex-athletes in military, business, and manual-labor jobs outearn their competitors by anywhere from 1.5 percent to 9 percent.
Primary Sources 2006
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We always have to avoid that dysfunction - even the lean manufacturing greats realized that they couldn't afford to see their manual-labor workforce that way.
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Back in my manual-labor days, they used to say, “A good big man is better than a good little man.”
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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Those are manual-labor jobs that can't be outsourced.
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The researchers found that most professions show wage premiums for college athletes: ex-athletes in military, business, and manual-labor jobs outearn their competitors by anywhere from 1.5 percent to 9 percent.
Primary Sources 2006
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