Word: collared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high-growth Contra Costa County, across the bay from San Francisco, with a 3- point margin. Mary Wilson, who manages the Bush campaign in the state, says ; the county is a "good snapshot of California" because it includes "pockets of Republicans, minorities, suburban yuppies, growth industries, agriculture and blue-collar jobs." Wilson notes that Republican candidates typically run 6 to 7 points ahead of Republican registration, which is around 45%. But while both Bush and Clinton visited Contra Costa in July, the Arkansas Governor is currently ahead there by a stunning 28 points...
...escapist drivel, meanwhile, is going after a younger crowd. TV's hottest new genre is the twentysomething ensemble show. Melrose Place (a spinoff of Beverly Hills 90210), The Heights (about a group of blue-collar New Jersey youths trying to launch a rock band) and 2000 Malibu Road, a soap opera set in a California beach house, all drew strong ratings this summer. Coming this fall are NBC's The Round Table (young professionals in Washington), Fox's Class of '96 (students at a small Northeastern college) and a slew of youth- oriented sitcoms...
...long as you have your health . . . " a familiar saying declares. But white-collar employees of General Motors who want to be certain of their health will soon have to ante up for it themselves. GM, having spent more than $3.4 billion on health care for its employees last year -- or $900 per vehicle -- has decided to apply the brakes. Last week 100,000 office-level employees at the company's finance unit and its U.S. car and truck division received memos informing them that they will be asked to pay a monthly premium of as yet unrevealed size for their...
...paradise is in trouble. "Forever, or so it seems," says sociologist Mark Baldassare, who has studied Orange County for 10 years, "this place was on the steepest of upward curves. But today, with every index down, the people who thought they were immune to recessions, the Republican white collar workers, have been caught. Bush will likely carry the county again, but if he doesn't get a 300,000-vote plurality here, there's no way he'll take California." And that, says Representative Robert Dornan, one of the county's five Congressmen, "is iffy at best, unless there...
...Digging a finger into his shirt collar)) Well, of course I'd put my arm around Bar. Only, if she's in a rubber raft somewhere off Alaska and I'm here at the White House, I don't quite see how I could . . . I mean...