Word: collared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prime-time cartoon show's evil power-plant owner with overbite, the dozing employees and a three-eyed fish named Blinky all have contributed to driving industry officials into a critical mass. But more than anything, Homer Simpson has them glowing under the collar...
...Street before he enters prison next March. Once he begins his term, Milken can be eligible for parole at any time. But experts said he would probably serve at least three years of the 10-year sentence because of the importance of the case as a deterrent to white-collar crime. Once Milken leaves the slammer, he will have to perform 5,400 hours of community service over three years...
Some legal scholars were as shocked as the defense team by the length of the jail time. "Wow! I'm surprised," said Harry First, a New York University law professor who specializes in white-collar cases. "I was expecting five years just based on what other people have gotten." Declared Columbia law professor Harvey Goldschmid: "The message being sent is that you've got to play within the rules of the game. White-collar crime will be taken seriously and sentenced in a serious...
...experts. "We are dealing here with a theme that resonates very strongly in American society," says Columbia's Coffee. "It is that the abuse of responsibility by those in high places will be dealt with harshly." The government hopes to make the threat of harsh sentences for white-collar felons the pointed lesson of Michael Milken's fall...
Ardent Zionists hope the latest anti-Arab sentiment will reawaken the blue- collar Jewish work ethic that built Israel. So far, however, few Israelis have been willing to accept low wages cleaning streets and digging ditches. The Dizengoff shopping center in Tel Aviv laid off 30 Palestinian janitors from Gaza two weeks ago, after they repeatedly missed work because of strikes and curfews. Managing director Gidon Kottler admits that he'll have to either raise salaries to attract Jews or use more machines. He says, "Jews are ashamed to do that kind of work during the day when people will...