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...Automation of high-paid jobs such as crane operator is likely to be the focus of the remaining negotiations....
...But Mompesson joins forces with his former adversary, the Puritan Thomas Stanley (Annette Badland), to persuade the citizens to risk their own lives for the greater good....
...The novel has a language all its own, composed of London slang, tech jargon, black dialect, vivid poeticism, and the musicality of grime and rap: a business partner is a “biz bro”, a hospital is described...
...“Wearables in hazardous environments are actually quite real today,” says Annette Zimmermann, an analyst with tech research company Gartner....
...To the frustration of many, the similarities with Bel Air extend to the seemingly perpetual motion of cranes and diggers....
...“How can I make it really sing so it won’t disappear in the grime?” Essential too was harmony with the ornate cornices and two-tone brickwork of the former library building next door....
...The arrival of the railways in the Victorian era transformed the City, enabling well-paid bankers to escape soot and grime to their suburban homes....
...Unusual subject-matter is also Annette Taylor-Anderson’s speciality. Her own-brand Construction wallpapers depict cranes, bridges, pavements and New York traffic lights....
...Workers in glistening oilskins and sea-boots tramp across the stage, and a giant crane’s hook descends to imply a wharf....
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