Word: blue-collar
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...people, when you talk about these kinds of experiments, have a feeling that they might be a fine idea for things like the assembly line and blue-collar factories where work is most clearly dehumanizing, but they have an image of white-collar work as more fulfilling. They feel that applications of these developments to white-collar setting is unnecessary because the work is already intrinsically rewarding...
Wailed Dudley Dudley, who headed the original Kennedy write-in campaign in New Hampshire: "It was the flag. People kept saying that in a time of crisis, they had to support the President." Kennedy carried no major segment of New Hampshire Democrats, except the young. He lost the blue-collar vote, which he considered one of his basic constituencies. He lost the most heavily Catholic precincts, in part because he favors federal financing of abortion for poor women when medically necessary. He lost all of New Hampshire's largest cities except Dover and Portsmouth, where he was in agreement...
...management consultants, programmed young Chuck to be a leader ever since he grew up on Chicago's gilt-edged North Shore. At 15, Dad packed his only son off to a client's foundry in a small Canadian town for a summer's work to learn blue-collar life. After that there were summer jobs in Switzerland, Germany and Argentina, engineering and business studies, varsity football and tennis at Cornell. In his early 20s, Chuck Knight headed the European operations of Lester B. Knight & Associates, Inc.: in his early 30s, he took charge of the whole company...
...Among blue-collar youths, support for draft registration seems to be even higher. In Boston, for instance, Carpenter Daniel Avenell, 20, declared: "I would be glad to go and be in the front lines-and I do mean the front." Said Bartender Aengus O'Leary, 20: "Registration is a good idea. People are panicking about a draft, but I think they should serve their country." The blue-collar youths, however, voice one all-important reservation: this time there should be no exemptions-if anybody goes, everybody should...
...this, the key requirement imposed by Congress is the contribution from Chrysler's workers. Although its blue-collar employees have already agreed to forgo expected wage increases amounting to $203 million in the next three years, Congress insists that an extra $259.5 million be cut. This will force Chrysler and the United Auto Workers to renegotiate the contract that they concluded in November. Said Senator William Roth, the Delaware Republican: "Our proposal would have to be ratified by the workers. Ultimately, it is up to them." White collar employees will also be hit; their wage packages...