Word: collared
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Bell isn't the long-shot candidate he might seem. Growing up in a blue-collar Sydney suburb, he helped out his father's travel business by playing passenger when tour buses weren't full. He got his first real job at 15 at the Kingsford McDonald's, became the youngest store manager Down Under at 19 and was managing director of McDonald's Australia by 35. Bell went on to run the company's Asia-Pacific and Europe operations before becoming COO last January...
...China and India since 2000. Technology-industry analyst Forrester Research forecasts that 3.3 million U.S. service-industry jobs, many in information technology, will move offshore in the next 15 years, taking $136 billion in wages and slowing down wage growth. Better technology and more efficient management have eliminated white-collar jobs too. What that means, then, is that legions of unemployed workers will have to switch industries entirely to find employment, says Erica Groshen, an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who coauthored a paper on the subject...
First it was a new policy of tolerance toward gays. Then bans were relaxed on the screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the sale of chewing gum and Cosmopolitans. If that isn't enough to convince you that buttoned-up Singapore is finally loosening its collar, then maybe its retail revolution will. Several painfully hip malls-packed with young-designer goods-have opened of late, bringing new life to the Lion City's shopping scene...
...believe the real problems often instead lie with high schools in working-class communities, which should be doing more to encourage good students to think about and plan for college. As an alum from a “blue-collar-and-below” zip code, I well know the problems that plague many less affluent schools, many of which focus on ensuring students pass standardized tests and graduate from high school, with little attention paid to where they go afterwards. At my high school, for example, a counselor estimated that only about 20 percent of seniors each year...
Back in 2000, when it signed the deal, the publisher bought the public Rosie: the cuddly, funny, blue-collar Long Island girl who mother-henned the world, gave lavishly to charity, acted like a star-struck kid meeting her idols--and like Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart, had a daily TV show to promote herself and her magazine activities. What they got, two years later, was a new Rosie: a heftier, more assertive, left-wing, out-of-the-closet lesbian--with no show...