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Options include bizarre choices such as "button coverers for ready-made clothing," but exclude more promising professions such as "auto-body repairer" or "ironworker."
Yoani Sanchez: Daddy State and His Frightened Children Yoani Sanchez 2011
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Seven years and hundreds of apartments later, the auto-body shops have been joined by a smattering of coffee shops, bars and restaurants.
A Foot-Friendly Fourth Remains Elusive Melanie Lefkowitz 2010
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Also on November 7, Jeffrey Cook, a 38-year-old auto-body restorer from Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, died of liver failure soon after receiving a liver transplant in a desperate attempt to save his life.
Hepatitis A 2010
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Hazem Balousha, who runs an auto-body shop across the road from the UNRWA school, was down the street, just out of range of the shrapnel, when the three shells hit.
Jenin II (update 2) Not a sheep 2009
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The new Long Island City joint fits right in to the neighborhood of auto-body shops and attracts local residents, police officers and firefighters by day.
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Daimler increased efforts to develop lightweight carbon-fiber auto-body parts, a burgeoning but costly approach to improving fuel efficiency, as it announced plans to set up a manufacturing venture with Japan's Toray Industries in Germany.
Business Watch 2011
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Enlisting a few friends and their in-kind donations of time and effort, the Bon Jovis took over and renovated a decrepit 1,100- square-foot auto-body shop into this permanent home which, to its great advantage, has the comforting look and feel of a neighborhood hangout spot.
Bon Jovi's Pay-What-You-Can Eatery Marshall Heyman 2011
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Similarly, the auto-body shop worker has been forced to make sacrifices, including his daily lunch, in order to keep a roof over his child's head and food on the table.
Here's Life Inner City: Child Poverty and America's Middle Class Dilemma Here 2011
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Daimler AG doubled down on efforts to develop lightweight carbon-fiber auto-body parts, a burgeoning but costly approach to improving fuel efficiency, as it announced plans to set up a manufacturing venture with Japan's Toray Industries Inc.
Daimler, Toray Plan Plant for Carbon-Fiber Parts Vanessa Fuhrmans 2011
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Teddy Carson barked at me a few times when I walked by his auto-body shop, told me he'd kick my ass when I came of age, but that winter he got shot between the eyes by a near-sighted hunter in the Piney Woods, and that pretty well ended any threat he held over me.
Chicken Craig Lancaster 2011
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