Word: collared
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...Thomas dismissed the central part of Bush's proposal for reforming Social Security, saying personal-investment accounts "don't really solve the problem." He then tossed a few political bombs, musing that Congress might link retirement benefits to gender because women live longer than men, or might let blue-collar workers retire earlier because "there are certain occupations in which you're pretty used up by 65." He rounded out his comments by declaring that the politics of the House and Senate would soon render the President's plan a "dead horse" even before Bush announces its details...
...really began with the collapse of the youth labor market, dating back to the late '70s and early '80s, which made it more difficult for people to get a foothold in terms of financial independence," C??t?? says. "You need a college degree now just to be where blue- collar people the same age were 20 or 30 years ago, and if you don't have it, then you're way behind." In other words, it's not that twixters don't want to become adults. They just can't afford...
...work--and much more--in their spare time and find it wonderful fun. In the process they have turned do-it-yourself into the biggest of all U.S. hobbies and a booming $6 billion-a-year business ... The meaning of the tasks performed by white-collar employees and executives often becomes lost in the complexities of giant corporations; it is hard for them to see what they are really accomplishing. But in his home workshop, anyone from president down to file clerk can take satisfaction from the fine table, chair or cabinet taking shape under his own hands--and bulge...
Murray, who grew up in a blue-collar family, suggests that his outbursts are generally spurred by a still fiery sense of class resentment and empathy for the underdog. On the set of his new film for Jarmusch, Murray got into a fracas with the location manager when he arrived at a rented house for a scene with child actors and discovered that there was no heat. When he started a fire in the fireplace, the location manager told him to stop. "'Who are you?'" Murray says, whispering, as he recalls the story, in the same intimidating hush he used...
...flourishing mills and the four Super Bowl titles of the 1970s are distant memories in western Pennsylvania. But an energetic blue-collar ethos still engulfs the Steelers. At 6 ft. 5 in. and 241 lbs., the quarterback, 22, is built like a linebacker, or millworker, and fits in with the patrons at Jack's. Veteran running back Jerome Bettis took a $3.5 million pay cut so he could finish his career in Pittsburgh. And at a time when teams are bought and sold like ingots and coaches are fired at the drop of a pass, Steelers chairman Dan Rooney--whose...