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FINES v. APFEL

No. 97-3254.

149 F.3d 893 (1998)

Duane FINES, Appellant, v. Kenneth S. APFEL, Commissioner of Social Security, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 24, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Leach, Rapid City, SD, argued, for Appellant.

Thomas H. Kraus, Assistant Regional Counsel of General Counsel Social Security Administration, Denver, CO, argued (Karen E. Schreier, Diana Ryan and Deana R. Ertl-Lombardi, on the brief), for Appellee.

Before BEAM and HEANEY, Circuit Judges, and WATERS, District Judge.

BEAM, Circuit Judge.

Duane Fines appeals the district court's affirmance of the denial of Social Security disability benefits. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

Fines is sixty years old. He was employed for more than thirty years as a truck driver. He has an eighth-grade education and suffers from back and knee pain.

At the hearing, Fines testified that his work as a city delivery truck driver generally involved lifting up to 100 pounds. He testified...

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