However, sportsmen and tradesmen say the current shortages are nationwide, and the worst they've seen.
On one street the colorful, old homes of tradesmen nestle up against one another.
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"These are skilled tradesmen looking to come here anyway, " says Mr. MacDonald, a piper.
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The tradesmen drank Budweiser and Mr Obama had a Guinness as they all toasted: "To more jobs!"
The island has become famous for its international fishing competitions and Bahamian guides, like Saunders, are skilled tradesmen.
And the producer lobbies that are fiercely against reform shopkeepers, small tradesmen are often stronger within centre-right parties than within the centre-left.
The downturn has procured a related outbreak of pleasant behavior: Tradesmen, salespeople and restaurant reservationists have lost their standoffish attitude.
He supervised the refurbishment, coming to the site every week with a wad of cash to pay his tradesmen and carpenters.
Other dodgy tradesmen make a fortune serving endangered species to superstitious diners.
The Construction Federation, an employers' body, is working on plans to avert an emerging shortage of tradesmen such as bricklayers and carpenters.
Over a 15-year period, Shakespeare bought and stored grain, malt and barley for resale at inflated prices to his neighbours and local tradesmen.
This let surgeons attend patients spouting blood without removing their coats an important distinction that set them apart from shirt-sleeved tradesmen of the lower orders.
Maureen McMullan, Managing Director of Roll Formed, said the construction industry was under pressure for faster building combined with a shortage of skilled tradesmen.
When cash is scarce, such scrip is readily accepted by tradesmen.
Manpower was the real problem, and in particular the difficulty of persuading engineers and skilled tradesmen to leave the United States to dig a ditch in a fetid tropical swamp.
The Revenue is also planning to launch more disclosure campaigns in this current tax year, aimed at specific groups of individuals, such as private tutors and fitness coaches, and tradesmen.
However, other professions and trades have not been able to adapt so well, and business has shrunk dramatically for the nation's house removers, conveyancing solicitors, house builders and building tradesmen.
The new market was rebuilt using as much of the original material as possible, with the addition of a new perimeter wall which saw local tradesmen employed to create ornamental details.
When we finally nailed him down for an interview on the Engadget Show last month, we asked him to meet us at the General Society for Mechanics and Tradesmen in midtown Manhattan.
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It is cheaper, according to Kurdish tradesmen, to ship bananas from Ecuador to Turkey and then smuggle them through Iraq into Iran than it is to bring them legally from nearby India or Africa.
"There is no such thing as a safe level of asbestos and cases like this should serve to remind tradesmen and those involved in maintenance activities that asbestos remains a significant danger to their health".
In his view, a cluster of cultural prejudices have steered many potential tradesmen into college, and then toward stultifying office jobs, which provide less satisfaction and less security than skilled manual labor, and sometimes less money.
Robert Irwin, from the School of Oriental and African Studies, says the stories were written to entertain in normal, conversational Arabic of the late Middle Ages - and were aimed at the tradesmen and the lower-middle classes.
Mr Felce had to organise something for 20 stags - all tradesmen - to do on 18 August, but instead of the traditional night out in Blackpool or Brighton, he opted to give something back to the community.
Skilled tradesmen like plumbers and electricians.
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In the glory days of piers, the middle classes and tradesmen of seaside towns bought shares in them to dip a cautious toe in the stockmarket, and town corporations saw them as the key to prosperity and the apogee of development.
Once, during a tour of a food market in Australia, the burly but politically nimble city father was rash enough to whip out a notebook and record some of the prices until tradesmen started waving their fists at his gleaming bald pate.
Constraints include a lack of on-hand ready-to-build lots (the price of pre-developed land lots has skyrocketed), tight lending standards for small to mid-sized builders, and a notable shortage of construction workers since tradesmen fled the city several years ago and have not returned.
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General Dynamics currently has 5, 000 engineers and draftsmen at work in and around Groton designing the next generation of ballistic-missile subs, and an additional 2, 000 tradesmen assembling Virginia-class attack subs, so the town is on firm ground in calling itself the submarine capital of the world.
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After 1851, when for the first time a majority of Britons lived in the towns, it is more likely that our ancestors worked in textile factories, iron and steel plants, on the railways, as small shopkeepers and tradesmen or in the vast army of Victorian clerks.
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