Word: blue-collar
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...Favourite Worst Nightmare,” done it again. They’ve released another phenomenally listenable album of pounding guitars and even harder (read: more scathing) lyrics. Once again, lead singer and guitarist Alex Turner and the other Monkeys from Sheffield, England, give us a delicious taste of blue-collar anger. This time around, the guitars might be a little louder and the sound a bit fuller, but the disc stays true to the promise and spirit of the group’s debut. The album is structured like a thunderstorm whose beauty is at first lost amidst...
...hate to be confused with a serious person with a huge message, but the truth is, I started getting a lot of calls from universities and blue-collar organizations like the U.A.W. and the Teamsters. The weird thing is, now most of the calls I get are from big corporations like Motorola...
Airbus' ability to climb out of the crisis has been severely restricted by its cumbersome and intensely political management structure. The French, German, Spanish and British consortium is backed by billions of dollars in taxpayers' money. But it's a nightmare of corporate governance because management and blue-collar jobs have traditionally been divvied up among its various state and private owners. Horse trading trumps efficiency, so many operations are needlessly duplicated. The wiring muddles behind nearly $3 billion in cost overruns are a classic example: plants in Toulouse and Hamburg wired different parts of the A380 in different ways...
Even better, Batman understands both the strife of the white-collar elite and the pressures of the blue-collar man. By day, he is the CEO and president of Wayne Enterprises, one of the most efficiently run multi-billion dollar corporations in the world. By night, he deals head-on with the types of criminal activity that plague so many lower-class communities. He understands you, whoever you are and whatever part of our glorious nation you come from...
Certain accents are widespread. Posh Queen’s English of the Eton or Cambridge variety is so familiar as to sound humdrum. Such accents, however, are all linked by a common denominator: a decidedly non-plebian heritage. By contrast, the Boston accent has a distinctly blue-collar identity...