Word: collared
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...factory closings of the 1980s and the emergence of the "knowledge economy," many liberals and conservatives alike had reached a consensus that manufacturing jobs could not be saved but the "lab coat" jobs would always stay here. "Now that vision is under siege," Bernstein says. And the white-collar middle class is feeling the sting of insecurity that manufacturing workers know so well...
...represented the stabbing as a class conflict. “Almost every article and news story, then, has emphasized/sensationalized the socioeconomic, class, racial and ethnic divisions which define this case—the wealthy, seemingly-entitled, privileged, white, Harvard-educated, armed, intoxicated graduate student juxtaposed with the unarmed, blue collar, urban dwelling, uneducated Hispanic young Cambridge father,” the motion said...
Life in Baghdad seems a lot like life anywhere—complicated, difficult, often mundane and very real. Familiar social realities persist even in a war zone. The life of the average soldier is very much a blue-collar grind. These men and women work long, hard hours, earn low pay and eat, sleep, joke, flirt and live like most Americans...
...movie in a dead language about the anguish and suffering of Jesus Christ? Why, a family sitcom! Mel Gibson is producing a comedy inspired in part by his own life as the father of six boys. ABC has ordered a pilot of The Savages, which is about a blue-collar single dad who is raising five boys. Gibson, who also has a daughter, will co-direct the pilot with Mike Scully, executive producer of The Simpsons. Scully and his wife Julie Thacker will co-write the script. "Mike and I decided to do a comedy about five boys," said Thacker...
...lionhearted military man who has lost his country but not his will to power, clings to his pride and decorum, changing into a suit after his grimy, sweaty workdays on a road-construction crew so that he can go home to his wife and son in white-collar dignity. Connelly plays a recovering alcoholic struggling with depression who makes the critical error of failing to pay her property taxes. He uses his savings to buy her California home at auction - a step toward rebuilding his family's prosperity. She believes the house is still rightfully hers and battles back - with...