Word: collared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things looked up, much of the current downsizing has been permanent. "All kinds of companies have got new religion about cost control," says William Melton, chief economist for Minneapolis-based IDS Financial Services. "And this will really have an impact on job creation." Thus many middle managers and blue- collar workers alike could have little chance of returning to work unless they change careers...
...case in point. Clinton is an upper middle class, Ivy League-trained politician, and also a frequent guest at an all-white country club whose dues are $20,000 a year. Yet his professional PR consultants (including the producers of Designing Women) had successfully turned him into the blue-collar candidate--until Jerry Brown took over that image--while the comparatively less affluent Tsongas was pegged as the representative of Brie and squash courts...
Bill Clinton is the first Democratic presidential contender since Jimmy Carter to attract black voters without alienating blue-collar whites. He is popular among women, union members, veterans and the unemployed, both North - and South. He talks tough on welfare without criticizing the poor and supports the death penalty without turning off liberals. He has a strong organization, loads of powerful friends, a lightning mind and a damage-control system that could have kept the Titanic afloat. He trounced his remaining two rivals so badly during crucial primaries in Illinois and Michigan last week that Paul Tsongas suspended his campaign...
Network-commissioned polls of voters in the two primary states showed Clinton running strong among back voters in Illinois and blue collar workers in Michigan. Brown reportedly ran slightly behind Clinton among union workers in Michigan, but well ahead of Tsongas...
Harvard Film Archive--presents Hour ofthe Wolf at 5:15 and 9 p.m. Blue Collar...