Word: collared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even before the stock-market crash last month evoked fears of a recession, some 20 million people in the U.S. were going hungry on a regular basis. So says Hunger Reaches Blue Collar America, a report released last week by the Physician Task Force on Hunger in America, a public health advocacy group. Using government figures and its own survey of some 25 depressed areas in eight states, the task force concluded that despite steady economic growth, 32.4 million people live at or below the federal poverty level ($9,069 for a family of three), and many of them rely...
...cost-cutting campaigns. Noting that some people may now decide to put off the purchase of a car, Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca announced that his company would speed up previously planned efforts to reduce its payroll. Iacocca intends by the end of the year to trim 3,500 white-collar employees from Chrysler's salaried work force of 38,000. In addition, the company will suspend production at an assembly plant in St. Louis for two weeks this month and will cancel plans to produce the Allure coupe. At GM, Chairman Roger Smith said the company would cut its costs...
...ironic that precisely the blue-collar middle-class districts of Cambridge comprise the core of the rent control opposition! These long-time Cambridge residents consider rent control a boon to the rich. They find that the policy raises everyone's local taxes, while a third of the units go to tenants who make more than the national median income, and nine percent go to tenants earning over $55,000 per year...
Entitled "Hunger Reaches Blue Collar America," the report charged that the current economic recovery is "having little impact on the nation's 20 million hungry citizens," a virtually unprecedented economic scenario...
...minutes of, oddly enough, a comedy, the first noteworthy new play of the Broadway season, which officially began in May. Burn This starts out as a sly sketch of the way we live now, making fun equally of hip characters onstage and of the dead roommate's unseen blue-collar family. Then the show metamorphoses into a scary collision between those two cultures. Finally it becomes a romance between the elegant choreographer and the dead man's explosive, disturbing older brother -- a sexually charged clash of classes reminiscent of It Happened One Night or, in its brutality and danger...