By midday, the heavy-equipment makers had edged 0.8% lower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Credit worries hit stocks] Reference

Her husband was retired after a career as a heavy-equipment operator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cash Before Chemo:] Reference

The heavy-equipment manufacturer's outlook for the U.S. economy darkened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overseas Growth Lifts Caterpillar] Reference

The heavy-equipment maker already has a pilot program with Wal-Mart Stores Inc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walgreen to Provide Drugs to Caterpillar] Reference

I'm a civil engineer, a bonded surveyor, and a licensed heavy-equipment operator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

Traders around the globe snapped up heavy-equipment, metals and oil-company stocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Rally Inspires Rebound] Reference

He spent a year seeking work as a heavy-equipment operator, and also in retail stores.    From Wordnik.com.  [College Grads Expand Lead in Job Security] Reference

Yenason is a wiry, dark-haired heavy-equipment contractor who took up the .50 in 1992.    From Wordnik.com.  [Way Out There: Shooting (And Hunting With) The .50 Caliber Browning Machine Gun Cartridge] Reference

Just then, Kyle Mobley, 49, a heavy-equipment operator from Bozeman, drops by with news.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gun-toting soccer moms a scary thought in DMV, but not out West] Reference

The heavy-equipment maker said it expects "recessionary conditions" in the U.S. to persist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carolina Countdown] Reference

Caterpillar Inc., the heavy-equipment maker, builds power generators that can run on methane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate-Control Talks to Address] Reference

“He talks American pretty good,” Dean Woods, a retired heavy-equipment operator, told me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boys from Brazil] Reference

The heavy-equipment maker's profit topped expectations, with sales in Latin America surging 95%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tight Races, Moon's Water, Not-So-Private Apps] Reference

Mitsui & Co. sank 3.19%, heavy-equipment maker Komatsu lost 0.64%, and Nippon Steel slipped 2.29%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regional Indexes Finish Higher;] Reference

Deere fell 1.4% after the heavy-equipment manufacturer posted a 55% rise in first-quarter net profit.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. stock prices get lift from new consumer data] Reference

The cost to the 38-year-old heavy-equipment operator of what he calls his "five star" accommodations?.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Is the Life:] Reference

He also worked as a heavy-equipment operator for a construction company and spent years as a fisherman.    From Wordnik.com.  [GLENN MARSHALL] Reference

"That hurts," says Chris Sybo, who owns Trio Trucking, a heavy-equipment hauling business near the bridge.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Earmarks' to nowhere: States losing billions] Reference

The day's losses spanned an array of sectors, including financial stocks, heavy-equipment makers and tech shares.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rattled Stock Markets Slide Again] Reference

The heavy-equipment maker said profit rose 54% in the fourth quarter, capping a record year of profit and revenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earnings Surge For Caterpillar] Reference

Shares of Caterpillar rose after the heavy-equipment maker offered a 2007 sales forecast above analysts' estimates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unemployment Hits Five-Year Low] Reference

Komatsu declined 4.5% on a report that the heavy-equipment maker has accelerated its plant closures in North America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nikkei hits a 26-year low;] Reference

The heavy-equipment giant will likely report a pop in overseas sales when it checks in Friday with first-quarter results.    From Wordnik.com.  [IBM, Google And Caterpillar: Profit Prophets?] Reference

Even so, Rodriguez is short at least 75 experienced tradespeople -- including truck drivers and heavy-equipment operators.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurts So Good;At Work: What Full Employment Is Li] Reference

As a result, the recently retired accountant says her husband, a heavy-equipment operator, will be able to retire this month.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seniors Drawn to Mortgages That Give Back] Reference

The heavy-equipment maker's concerns are focused on the potential loss of subsidies to drug costs it covers for retired staff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Makes Health-Care Case as Vote Looms] Reference

Sets Off Heavy Trading An analyst upgrade of Caterpillar Inc. kicked off heavy options trading in the heavy-equipment manufacturer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Upgrade on Caterpillar] Reference

While his father was a heavy-equipment operator who worked overseas, Smets "stumbled into rodeo" as an adolescent living in Australia.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

Traders bet Beijing will step up its attempts to stimulate China's economy, buying shares of heavy-equipment, metals and oil companies.    From Wordnik.com.  ['China Trade' Boosts Caterpillar and Alcoa] Reference

Investors betting Beijing would step up its attempts to stimulate China's economy boosted the shares of heavy-equipment, metals and oil companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shanghai rally inspires gains] Reference

What used to take hundreds of miners employed for decades, now takes a half-dozen heavy-equipment operators and blasting technicians a couple of years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tara Lohan: Top 5 Myths About Coal] Reference

The heavy-equipment maker said it will cut executive compensation by as much as 50%, offer 25,000 workers buyouts and impose certain pay cuts on those staff that remain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toyota, Macy's, Alcoa Join Broad Declines] Reference

Penn College heavy-equipment students experience Volvo simulator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penn State Live] Reference

Collinsville - Billy Gene Evans, 73, city of Nowata heavy-equipment operator, died Tuesday.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"Aid has to reach those who have nothing first," said Luis Sarzosa, 47, a heavy-equipment operator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference