Word: collared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...related to all the other Kennedys, is the clear frontrunner in the race to succeed the retiring Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. as the representative from the Eighth Congressional District. That district--comprised of Boston, Cambridge, and other nearby towns--includes both the blue-collar Democrats of that party's fabled ex-constituency and the limousine liberals who run the political process...
...course, poverty existed in Chile before the last decade, but the two-city split is new to this era of military rule. There is no mingling even in the marketplace, and the gap between the wage of the average unskilled worker and that of the typical white-collar professional is about 100 times what...
...many lost loved ones in the often treacherous Caribbean crossing. Once ashore, all but a few failed to realize the legendary American dream. In New York City, where as many as 70,000 ) Haitians live, only 10,000 or so are professionals. A large number are hospital workers, blue-collar laborers and domestics who work long hours and earn low wages. In addition, many are illegal aliens living in constant fear of deportation. Even so, the prospect of returning to a country where the average annual per capita income is under $300 and the political future is still uncertain seems...
...devoted their lives--and their bodies--to art. The pivotal event of Li Na's life occurred when her date tricked her into watching a porn movie. "She was shocked by the movements on the screen, and she felt warm and suffocated. As she was about to unbutton her collar to breathe a little, a hand grasped...
...office of the federal legal system, Rudolph Giuliani, 41, has a mission: "To make the justice system a reality for the criminal." Nearly three years into his four-year appointment by President Reagan, he has done just that by snaring high-living mobsters, low-life drug dealers, quiet white-collar criminals and loud banner headlines. Like Thomas Dewey and Henry Stimson, earlier New York prosecutors who parlayed their convictions into prominent national careers, Giuliani has become a high-profile, white-hatted gangbuster in an age when the public yearns for someone to prove that crime doesn...