Waitress Laurie Thomas checks in on customer John Billingsley, a pipeline worker from Texarkana, Ark., on Oct. 23, 2009. Business has nearly doubled at The Garden Bar and Grill in Bemidji, Minn. since pipeline workers arrived in town late this summer. (AP Photo/Tom Robertson, Minnesota Public Radio)
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