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My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.
James Weldon Johnson
Money
Sometimes
Pay
Luck
Other
Settle
Hundred
Table
Borrow
Varied
Had
Fellow
Rent
Dollars
Times
Meals
Room
Fifty
Gambling
Workmen
Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.
Meg Whitman
Government
Health
You
Benefits
Welfare
Care
Down
Unlike
Variable
Costs
Name
Economy
Health Care
Because
Insurance
Least
Revenues
Go
Up
Unemployment
Tax
Where
Happens
Tax Revenues
Your
Businesses
Workmen
Suffers
Compensation
There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.
Leland Stanford
Own
Would
Would-Be
Employer
Fellow
Industry
Idling
His
Spur
Being
Co-Operative
Reason
Workman
Workmen
Workshop
Each
Watchful
I thought it would be good for the engineers and workmen who were building my spacecraft to see the pilot who would have to fly it hanging around. It might make them just a little more careful than they already were and a little more eager to get the work done on time if they saw how much I cared.
Gus Grissom
Work
Time
Good
Pilot
Fly
Thought
Building
Saw
Would
Would-Be
See
More
Make
Around
How
How Much
Were
Than
Get
Done
Hanging
Just
Spacecraft
Little
Them
Might
Much
Engineers
Who
Workmen
Eager
Cared
Careful
If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.
Charles E. Wilson
Progress
Better
Slow
Become
Living
Increase
Impatient
Only
Through
Prices
Look
Terribly
Real
Reduction
Wages
Denied
Any
Them
Standard
Forward
Workmen
Dissatisfied
The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.
Edward Carpenter
Value
General
Fact
He
Taken
Advantage
Namely
Obvious
Does
Surplus
His
Get
Labours
Capitalist
Full
Workmen
Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen.
Alice Morse Earle
Few
Colored
New
New England
Houses
Within
Without
Were
Any
Lists
Either
England
Workmen
Painted
Painters
Appear
Early
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
Charles Henry Parkhurst
Faith
Great
History
Men
Giants
Kind
Winged
Like
Been
Intellect
Who
Workmen
Believed
The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations.
Auberon Herbert
Work
Father
Will
Own
Others
State
Responsibilities
Restore
Through
Voluntary
Stepped
Between
Combinations
Forced
Course
Contributions
Duties
Which
Them
Themselves
Workmen
Now
Reject