The former metal worker and union leader long ago abandoned jeans for business suits.

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Be flexible is not something I expected to hear from a metal worker.

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Without local authority funding, he paid his own way during the two-year course, taking a job as a sheet metal worker for a time.

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Mr Nazarbaev, a former metal worker who has led the country since 1989, is genuinely popular and probably would have won even without help.

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Last year he brought over 490 welders and metal-fitters from India on H-2B guest worker visas--ten-month visas for blue-collar laborers filling jobs that no American citizens want.

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