Word: collared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Suffering and failure are at the core of The Simpsons, which was created by newspaper cartoonist Matt Groening as crudely drawn filler material for the Tracey Ullman Show in 1987, then went weekly in 1990. A Honeymooners with kids, the series features a man in a deadening blue-collar job (Homer, the nuclear-plant safety inspector), his epochally exasperated wife (Marge of the mountainous blue hair) and three conflicted kids. Bart, 10, is clever and cunning but addled in class; Lisa, 8, is a near genius whose intelligence deprives her of friends; year-old Maggie expresses frazzled wisdom beyond...
Born in Chicago, Ill. in the fall of 1947, Clinton grew up in the white-collar suburb of Park Ridge. Clinton's memoirs tell the story of a neighborhood where fathers took their children and their children's friends ice skating at the local pond and where the district school stayed open during the summer, sponsoring arts-and-crafts programs for the area children...
...blue-collar bungalows of this lush valley 110 miles south of Portland, all the grownups could talk about was what nurturing, sensible parents Faith and Bill Kinkel had been. All the kids could talk about was how "Kip" Kinkel liked to torture animals, collect guns, build small pipe bombs and joke about killing people...
...merged company will definitely not save money on labor, on either side of the Atlantic--a point that was well received by workers. "We think it's good for Chrysler and our union," said United Auto Workers president Stephen P. Yokich, who represents more than 64,000 blue-collar and 7,000 salaried Chrysler personnel. "But we'll take a good look at it. Our job is to protect the interests of our members...
...majority of the district--blue collar families, whose wage-earners worked in service and industrial sectors--were strongly in favor...