Word: collar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...north and west. At the same time, cost overruns and federal budget cuts knocked out plans to extend the rails into those parts of town. Result: Metrorail cannot deliver residents of lower-income neighborhoods to the northern suburbs, where many of them work. Nor can it transport white-collar commuters in the opposite direction, from the north to downtown. County officials hoped Metrorail would carry 200,000 riders a day; it transports at most 34,000 (the fare: $1). To stem financial losses, the county may cut back on service, a move that could reduce passenger loads even more...
...Education Association was holding a luncheon for Maureen Reagan. Azenha had heard that some of the vice-presidential contenders might be at the lunch, and he was hoping to interview them. But there was no sign of Bob Dole or Jack Kemp in the cavernous hall. Azenha managed to collar the President's daughter, who provided a few remarks. Later in the day, he interviewed Shirley Temple Black, a delegate from California, and Actor Charlton Heston...
Michael Keaton plays Daryl Poynter, the very model of a white-collar slime mold: he's a thief, an accessory to murder and a meanie to his mom. He can't even admit he has a drug problem -- cocaine and alcohol -- until a tough-love therapist (Morgan Freeman), an A.A. veteran (M. Emmet Walsh) and a nervy fellow addict (Kathy Baker) help him see the dark before the light. Some of the early scenes ring as inauthentic as the Philadelphia accents; each supporting junkie pushes too hard, as if he were part of an Actors Lab experiment that failed...
...symbol, Quayle merely reinforces the public perception of the Republican Party (and of Bush himself) as the party of the well-to-do. As an heir to a nationwide publishing network whose net worth is estimated at $200 million, Quayle certainly isn't likely to help Bush convince blue-collar workers and Reagan Democrats that the ticket represents the concerns of the working men and women of this country...
...white- collar crime wave is spurring a cleanup operation. -- How to rob * banks without a gun. -- Going after the trade...