In a January 2009 appeal, he told an administrative law judge he stopped working as a union carpenter because "I wasn't getting along with a lot of people and I was getting a bad reputation, like I was losing control of, I guess, my nerves, " according to records from a later federal-court hearing.

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In his first season he couldn't score a goal for 15 games but he never stopped working, and last season he weighed in with six.

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But when his proposal for the sixth album, "Revolver, " was rejected, he pretty much stopped working with them after that, Prem says.

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Employee was late because he attempted to cut his own hair before work and the clippers stopped working, so he had to wait until the barber shop opened to fix his hair.

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Undone by stress and grief, Chris stopped working some of the personal training jobs he held to supplement his income teaching in the exercise science program at the University of New Mexico.

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Should he just have stood by while credit seized up and ATMs stopped working?

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Mr Roberts said the groom did not follow his orders and he was unable to supervise him due to health problems which stopped him working in the barn as much, Ms Law said.

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Mr Wilson was told that his Jobseeker's Allowance would be stopped after he refused to take part in the Community Action Programme, which his lawyers said would have involved him working unpaid for 30 hours per week for six months.

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