Word: collared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admissions office's main concern, he says,is to make sure that students from allbackgrounds, including blue-collar, recentimmigrants, and smaller Asian-American subgroupsget to Harvard...
Years of cajoling and lecturing had done no good. In a society where white- collar workers burn the midnight oil as a matter of routine, tougher action was needed. So henceforward, Nippon Steel will switch off the electricity at its Tokyo headquarters at 10 p.m., forcing the workaholics among its 3,300 employees to suspend work and go home. Those who try to make up for the lost hours on Sunday will find the doors locked...
...irony was that liberalism, which sought to heal the injuries of class, should itself fall victim to class warfare -- to the resentment of the blue- collar and lower-middle classes against those they saw as the professional- class purveyors of paternalism. White Southerners and Northern ethnics, once Democratic stalwarts, increasingly felt like outsiders at the gate. A Great Society? Not if you'd been left off the invitation list...
Responding to a student question about recruitment, Lam said the emphasis for all groups is "on working-class and blue collar families." For Asian-Americans, he said, "part of the effort is to diversify the diversity of Asian-American groups...
Typical victims are meat packers who slice scores of carcasses a day, or autoworkers who drive the same screws hour after hour. But a particularly fast-growing category of victims includes white-collar professional and clerical workers who spend their days pounding away at keyboards. An increasing number are responding in a white-collar way: with lawsuits. Hundreds of injured telephone reservationists, cashiers, word processors and journalists, McCool among them, are suing computer manufacturers, blaming the machines for their disabilities. IBM, Apple Computers, AT&T and Kodak's Atex- division, which produces a word-processing system designed for journalists, have...