Word: collared
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...term with 79% of the vote. His annual budgets are routinely passed with only token opposition. He controls public housing, public schools and the city council. He is cozy with Big Business, is a master at the ward politics of fixing streetlights, and he speaks with a blunt, blue-collar brio that Chicagoans find endearing. "There's never been a [U.S.] mayor, including his dad, who had this much power," says Paul Green, professor of policy studies at Chicago's Roosevelt University. And he's used it to steer the Windy City into a period of impressive stability, with declining...
...white members of the city's school committee united to elect Boston's first black school superintendent, Laval Wilson, 49, a no-nonsense administrator who has led the public schools in Rochester since 1980. "I'm thrilled," said School Committee President John Nucci, a resident of the blue-collar East Boston neighborhood, adding, "We're off to an optimistic start...
...wily financier played out his hand, a third potential offer for TWA suddenly arose from a group of the airline's workers, led by white-collar, non-unionized employees. Advised by Christopher Bond, a former Governor of Missouri, this faction had reportedly raised more than $1 billion in the financial markets of Western Europe in an effort to top the Icahn and Lorenzo bids...
...been costing the company an estimated $17 million a day. While the price tag on the new contract will be a daunting $1 billion over the next three years, the company was in no position this time to play tough with its workers. Morale has suffered because blue-collar employees felt they were missing their share of the company's bounty. The firm last year had profits of $2.4 billion, and is expected this week to announce hefty third-quarter earnings. Said Reno Pietrantoni, 53, a millwright who has worked 26 years for Chrysler: "The bonus is really a drop...
...some reason, the oil companies set their headquarters in Midland, giving the town a white-collar image, while the field hands clung to Odessa, lending it a blue-collar air. When high school football came along (to continue our ton of history in a thimble), it meant that every Thanks-giving the bosses' sons played the sons of the laborers. Through the years things changed--both towns now sport enough alabaster shirts to have a lot of ring around the collar in the summertime--but the deep and abiding rivalry over high school football remained white...