The bulk of the population once toiled on the surrounding sugar cane estates, however, the local sugar industry was shut down in 2005, following plummeting world sugar prices and a growing national deficit.

Inside, where Mr. Nixon once toiled, the air is thick with the smell of mildew, the plaster is falling and the floors are covered with debris.

"Grass" offers meticulous sound design, and some snappy graphics put together by the film's art director, Paul Mavrides, who once toiled in the underground comics world.

Today, far from the gleaming office and hotel towers along the downtown Detroit River, Tyson was a cheerful presence working out in the humble quarters where Louis once toiled.

"Nothing commemorates the site," he continues, "only rubble and faded signs in overgrown thickets where hundreds of men once toiled and sometimes died."

The once mighty Micra is a vaporous ghost in Tyne and Wear these days, haunting Nissan's Sunderland factory where workers once toiled over the froglike supermini.

She once toiled as a back-up singer for the famous spouse, who was sitting front and center in the club.

Targeting Professionals Bradley Bayou wants the world to know that his creations for Halston are made by the same artisans who once toiled for Galanos, the legendary couturier.

Stay here and, within a very short time, it is easy to sit back and imagine the life and traditional ways of the peasants who once toiled here and in the hills all around.

Editors of the glossies, who once toiled in relative obscurity, have become more visible in recent years, offering relationship advice and beauty tips on morning talk shows.