Word: blue-collar
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...unique feature of the current recession, Medoff said, is that whitecollar workers are also suffering, as seen in the soaring unemployment rate among this class of workers. During the previous three recessions--which the economist classified as "blue-collar"--the percentage of unemployed white-collar workers actually declined...
...case in point. Clinton is an upper middle class, Ivy League-trained politician, and also a frequent guest at an all-white country club whose dues are $20,000 a year. Yet his professional PR consultants (including the producers of Designing Women) had successfully turned him into the blue-collar candidate--until Jerry Brown took over that image--while the comparatively less affluent Tsongas was pegged as the representative of Brie and squash courts...
Bill Clinton is the first Democratic presidential contender since Jimmy Carter to attract black voters without alienating blue-collar whites. He is popular among women, union members, veterans and the unemployed, both North - and South. He talks tough on welfare without criticizing the poor and supports the death penalty without turning off liberals. He has a strong organization, loads of powerful friends, a lightning mind and a damage-control system that could have kept the Titanic afloat. He trounced his remaining two rivals so badly during crucial primaries in Illinois and Michigan last week that Paul Tsongas suspended his campaign...
...third break for Antwan: McNamara, who worked as a night bailiff to get through law school, is actually on Fishkin's side this time. She was born and raised in New Jersey in a blue-collar family; her hard-nosed reputation is a reflection of a strong sense of outrage at the inner-city disaster. "Sometimes," she says, "I get home at night and I think my name is 'Bitch.' They stop being kids to you after a while. Some of them are vicious and nasty. They'd shoot you in a heartbeat...
...telling her story in 25 different voices, with each short chapter written in the first person. The author's attempt at so many voices when she is not sure of even one seems utter folly. While they are meant to sound distinct, the characters sound curiously similar. Despite their blue-collar vernacular, each remains somehow knowing and clever...