Word: collared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...esteem that came with having a career," he observes. These days, if an entrepreneur has not made his first million by the time he is 30, his commitment to capital accumulation is suspect. And in the transition from an industrial to a global service economy, many of the white-collar "servants" -- lawyers, bankers, accountants -- are pushing harder than ever to meet their clients' inexhaustible needs...
Congdon's Tales of the Lost Formicans takes a weepy topic that might easily have been a TV movie of the week and inverts it into a witty, goofy, almost anthropological look at humankind as viewed by aliens from outer space. The patriarch of a suburban blue-collar family is dying of Alzheimer's disease, while his daughter acts out anger over her divorce through petty crimes of feminist rage and his grandson runs away and ends up sleeping in shopping malls. The extraterrestrials are staging a sort of slide show to explain how human art, society and psychology work...
...received a reduced charge in return for his testimony. They could also challenge the constitutionality of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law, the statute under which Milken has been charged. Some legal experts believe the law, originally designed to combat organized crime, gives prosecutors unfair leverage in white-collar-crime cases...
...Griff isn't flashy," Lux said. "He's a strong, aggressive, middle linebacker-type player, kind of blue-collar. He came through big against Penn...
Government prosecutors have amply proved their ability to persuade white- collar offenders on Wall Street to confess and plead guilty, but can the Feds convict anybody in a court trial? In attempting to try an important case stemming from the Ivan Boesky stock-fraud scandal, the Government is striking out. Last week the criminal stock-manipulation case against GAF and its vice chairman, James Sherman, ended in a second mistrial. After six weeks of testimony and more than 90 hours of deliberations, Federal Judge Mary Johnson Lowe decided the jury was hopelessly deadlocked...