Word: blue-collar
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...rich deal with inflation by buying property that is likely to rise in value, such as automobiles and real estate, or stash their money in banks in neighboring Uruguay, where dollar accounts are legal. The average worker has no such sanctuaries. Like many other blue-collar workers, one factory stock clerk named Victor, 56, finds that his hard-won comforts are vanishing fast. Once his family regularly dined on beefsteaks; now, he says, "we don't know what meat looks like. We eat ravioli." His 13,000 peso monthly salary is now worth only about $40. Last year...
...housecleaner in Boston and hopes to become a quiltmaker. "I enjoy cleaning houses," she says, "and I meet a lot of people doing it." For some, such as a Wellesley graduate working as a groom at a prep school's stables, there is even a certain blue-collar chic in low level jobs...
...from the early primaries and caucuses. In last week's primary, he dominated the center on the issues, had the best organization and had the broadest appeal of all the candidates. He got 72% of the votes cast by blacks and piled up majorities among people under 25, blue-collar workers, voters earning more than $15,000 and Democrats identifying themselves as liberals. Said he after the victory: "I don't see anyone who can beat me, but I see a lot of hard political scraps ahead...
Carter may well come in second, winning some 25 delegates, chiefly in three Northern congressional districts. Wallace can be expected to land a dozen or more delegates in blue-collar areas in the central part of the state and could get a handful in the Cook County suburbs, where race is an issue...
...abandon Sargent Shriver and Senator Frank Church -due to enter the presidential race next week-to go with Udall. Having grabbed the liberal banner and proclaimed himself "the only horse to ride," Udall has already started to concentrate his efforts on wooing the minorities and the more conservative blue-collar and labor Democrats in New York...