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Word: collared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the Elis tied the game in the fourth, Cupp came in to relieve Brown at the start of the fifth and pitched three perfect innings. That, combined with the blue-collar run that Harvard scored in the fifth, was all she wrote for Yale once again...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Softball Breaks Out of Slump | 4/16/1996 | See Source »

...People have no idea how fraudulent people who claim to be scholars can be," says Johnson. Stocky, graying, slightly owl-like, he teaches New Testament at Atlanta's Emory. Like Crossan, Johnson took priestly orders as a young man but gave up the collar in order to marry. But Johnson never broke with the church, and as time went on, he became progressively more alarmed at the work of his fellow scholars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOSPEL TRUTH? | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

...other students disputed their rejection by the law school. One of the strengths of the case, says Terral Smith, the Austin lawyer who filed it, is that Hopwood is "a real victim, the sort of person affirmative action should help." According to Smith, Hopwood, who comes from a blue-collar family, was offered a couple of partial scholarships--including one to Princeton--but still could not afford to go. Instead she attended California State University, married a serviceman, worked as an accountant and was raising a disabled child when she applied to the University of Texas law school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNDOING DIVERSITY | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

...obvious fiscal benefits there are many less obvious economic and social costs. For one, notes Robert Goodman, author of The Luck Business, a critic of the industry, "casinos are an extremely regressive means of financing government" since many gamblers are low income-retirees on Social Security, blue-collar workers, even welfare recipients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST ST. LOUIS PLACES ITS BET | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

...spent pages and pages of print detailing the effect of corporate layoffs on America's standard of living, collective pride and economic morale. These articles left me considerably depressed. The American dream, it seemed, was breathing its last. Real wages have stagnated since the '70s, and high-paying white-collar jobs continue to disappear in times of recovery as well as recession. What it all seemed to boil down to is that children can no longer expect to enjoy a higher standard of living than their parents and instead must contend with a much higher level of job insecurity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hope, Gloom, Ec 10 | 3/15/1996 | See Source »

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