Or as Mr. Weaver, a retired contractor, said: "It just means we have less money to live on.

With her husband, James, a retired contractor, Mrs. Sledge has lived in the building for 25 years.

Peter Hexamer is a retired electrical contractor in Brantford.

It took Roger Stevens, a retired commercial contractor from Remsenburg, seven months to recast the 1932 theater to its original jewel-box appearance.

Tim Normand, a retired contractor, lives just behind the church.

As Mr. Massaro, a 58-year-old retired contractor, pointed out, "The last thing we needed was another house."

His father, a retired general contractor, breeds and trains thoroughbred horses in Bothell.

Her father is a retired contractor and construction worker in San Francisco.

"I wish now that I'd learned," said Mr. Ayers, 71, a retired contractor.

Urnelt, a retired contractor, said he became an American citizen a year ago, 42 years after moving to Glendale.