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A meticulous man who spends some of his $59 monthly welfare check on haircuts, Mr. Livingston says he quit a security-guard job late last year, then couldn't find another when the economy tanked.
Boing Boing 2009
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Then a carrottopped man in a security-guard uniform appeared from behind a mannequin and yelled, “Hold it right there!”
Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010
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"Jeff" (the brother of the editor of Photoshop Insider) is pretty sure that the "plain-clothes security-guard" who approached him in a store in Italy to enforce the store's no-photography rule was a petty con-man who just wanted to steal the memory-card out of Jeff's camera.
Boing Boing 2008
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The owners have access to 24-hour room service from the neighboring Mandarin Oriental, and security-guard protection.
Living in the Lap of Luxury Tara Loader Wilkinson 2010
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Then a carrottopped man in a security-guard uniform appeared from behind a mannequin and yelled, “Hold it right there!”
Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010
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Besides printing gigs, he has applied for security-guard and hospital-laundry-room jobs.
Faces 2010
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Thursday's theft was a simple burglary that exploited a fluky alarm system, a window with a single padlock and a deficiency in security-guard coverage.
Heist-proof museums? U.S. buildings aided by design, location 2010
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Then a carrottopped man in a security-guard uniform appeared from behind a mannequin and yelled, “Hold it right there!”
Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010
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In South Africa, Austin Ngwenya, 49, bets $20 a month on soccer from his $370-a-month security-guard salary.
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Then a carrottopped man in a security-guard uniform appeared from behind a mannequin and yelled, “Hold it right there!”
Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010
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