Word: collared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perceptual sense, the gloom is deeper because this time unemployment has hit an influential and vocal class of managers and other white-collar workers. "So many of us are seeing our peers thrown out of work," says John Rogers, who runs his own Chicago investment firm. "That's what's so frightening...
Never have so few plundered so much from so many as did those financial buccaneers of the 1980s, Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, Martin Siegel and Dennis Levine. And not often has a story of white-collar crime been told in such juicy detail as in this best seller by the Wall Street Journal's front-page editor...
Never have so few plundered so much from so many as did those financial buccaneers of the 1980s, Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, Martin Siegel and Dennis Levine. And not often has a story of white-collar crime been told in such juicy detail as in this best seller by the Wall Street Journal's front-page editor...
Perhaps this recession has produced more publicized malaise than most because it has hit the upper classes more than most. White-collar workers usually escape recessions. In 1981-82, for example, the white-collar unemployment rate increased one-sixth as much as the blue-collar rate. This time it has increased fully half as much. The factory worker has the ballot box, but he has less access to the national soapbox than do the manager and the office worker, the M.B.A. and the journalist now on the street looking for work. In part, then, this recession has been hyped...
...citizenry and asked the city to recruit 100 minority families by 1995. Though the plan has yet to be officially enacted, the city council endorsed it by a 6-to-1 vote last May. Dubuque hasn't been the same since. "The plan is perceived by blue-collar workers as a personal threat to their jobs," says Bob Wahlert, president of F D L Foods and a supporter of the scheme. Twelve cross burnings since July suggest that darker emotions are also involved...