Paul is a retired electrical contractor who started a family business with their son.

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"A competent electrical contractor and electrician would have gone to that job site and tried to discover why pipes could have been energized, " he said.

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"I'm very into the Harley myth, " says Alvin LaSalle, 63, an electrical contractor in Cathedral City, California, who has Harley's trademark wings and the word "Free" tattooed on his arm.

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Joe Scarborough, a 50-year-old self-employed electrical contractor from Charlotte, opened the first round of qualifying in the PBA50 Sun Bowl on Sunday with three games of 300, throwing 36 consecutive strikes.

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The 57-year-old electrical contractor from Savannah, Ga.

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The son of a contractor and a restaurant owner, Mr. Brichter graduated from Tufts University with a degree in electrical engineering in 2006.

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