91. Have you heard the one about the defense factory workers in Volgograd who get paid in sex toys? 92. He has preached to auditoriums full of factory workers and street vendors, Ecuadorean grandparents and Mexican children. 93. He has the common touch and can spend hours commiserating with a factory worker thrown out of his job or schoolteachers unable to find the money to buy textbooks. 94. He is the son of a mid-level factory worker, although he added that his family was rich until World War II. 95. He owns a neighborhood dive where factory workers and mailmen get sauced, play dominoes, lie about their women and complain about their rotten kids. 96. He savored a whiff of his old popularity when he spoke before cheering college audiences and factory workers in Novosibirsk last month. 97. He pointed to the steep rise in lawsuits over labor issues and the frequent, if suppressed, efforts by factory workers to organize independently. 98. He held various jobs, according to Agence France-Press, including a bouncer for a strip club, sparring partner for boxers, and a factory worker. 99. He is a maverick with a mouth, who appeals to the simple farmers and factory workers of Belarus. 100. He was the guy the cab drivers and the factory workers could get behind. |