The center most urgently needs new socks and underwear, personal care items, camping gear, men's jeans, work boots and nonperishable food items.

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But despite all that, there are still some great, high-paying jobs for those who are more apt to wear hard hats and work boots than don pinstripes or tote a briefcase.

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Mr. GARY MILLER (Owner, Miller Dry Goods): You know, we carry a lot of work boots, you know, that have to be waterproof and frocks that are fire retardant, like all of this stuff, all of these Carhartt products right there.

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The spread between the take-home pay of the buyout crowd and every other category in the business world has widened enormously, not to mention the guys in work boots threatened by globalism's irrepressible march to arbitrage labor to its lowest possible levels.

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Soon Blake began spending nights at her house, shuffling around in a Vikings jersey with his work boots unlaced and a beer can in his fist, and before long he was chainsawing every tree in her back yard and running wild with a rented backhoe.

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Casting elongated shadows in the ghostly gleam of headlights, the men pulled on tar-stiff overalls and knee-high rubber boots and set to work.

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As the Grammy Award winner began work on the exuberant "Kinky Boots, " it took her back to her childhood, where she was likely to be found listening endlessly to cast albums on a record player.

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And they were provided with suitable clothing for their work, including corduroy trousers and waterproof boots.

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Throughout his deployment Samuels continued to work with the Center's Army Science and Technology programs, offering them a "boots on the ground" perspective that allowed them to fine tune the Army's emerging technologies to better meet the needs of our war fighters.

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