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Former US Airways Mechanic in Tampa, Fla., Has Rough Landing after Layoff.

By Michael A. Fuoco, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 21--TAMPA, Fla.--It was rainy and cold -- not a typical Tampa day.

That seemed somehow appropriate to Sam Wood because he wasn't feeling typical himself. The usually upbeat, take-things-as-they-come kind of guy was on his hands and knees, scrubbing grime from the white "curb-along" -- a thin cement barrier that separates shrubbery from lawns, a landscaping mainstay in this city. But there was more, a feeling of humbleness he had never experienced, something he would l

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