Mygafferwould probably choose a white guy if there was nothing to choose in ability between them.
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Workers will be discouraged from challenging gaffers dismissing them, and it will be a sweetener and an encouragement of employers to dismiss workers on a whim.
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There were so many clever men among them that they all wanted to be gaffers, every man wanting to conduct the quarry on his own method.
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I am talking about the old days when matchboxes containing half-crowns were passed to the gaffers by desperate dockers who were looking for a day's work.
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Several companies make rolls of very thin gaffer's or paper tape marketed as spike tape specifically for placing spikes.
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Copper vessels called gaffers are decorated with divas (clay lamps), filled with mustard oil, and lit.
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What will hisgaffer, who is sitting next to him, do?
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The people who work like to see the "gaffer"; they occasionally like to see their boss.
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He need not contact the "gaffer" if he does not want to.
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Ourgafferis the electorate, and it is coming up shortly.
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We do not have agafferstood over us.
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They may not call them to their face the "boss", or the "gaffer"or the"old man" or any other endearing term, but they are on friendly terms like that.
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The new shape allowed the cinematographer andgafferto black out any side by attaching lightweight materials.
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A swing keel lifted halfway is the perfect treatment for weather helm on agaffer.
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One variation isgaffertape designed to be cleanly removed, while duct tape is not.
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