Word: collared
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...alleviating the burden of an unemployment rate that hovers close to 20 percent. Spiraling unemployment has been the downside of the free-market policies implemented by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and has swung voters more solidly behind the PT. It's an issue that Lula, a self-taught blue collar worker and trade unionist before becoming the beacon of the Brazilian Left, understands better than any of the other candidates - and certainly better than most international investors. "If international economists were always right, all we would need is to hire 10 Nobel Prize (winners) and let them run the country...
...Literal punching is not recommended, except when dealing with members of the Fly. Aim for the spot right between their upturned collar and their backwards visor...
...asshole: put your collar down. You look like a total douche...
Julia Roberts and Drew Barrymore went home braless from Hogs ’n’ Heifers, a blue-collar country-western watering hole in the meatpacking district of Manhattan. This is not the bar’s only brush with Hollywood. Cineastes will recognize its beautiful, scantily clad female bartenders who two-step to honky tonk as the inspiration for the movie Coyote Ugly. Over the summer, among Hogs ’n’ Heifers’ standard line-up of sexy bartenders, cheap beer, celebrity bras and customers with mullets was a decidedly unlikely presence: Jordan...
...Avalon, doesn’t just answer “yes”—it obliterates any doubt to the contrary. Taking the stage to chants of “let’s go, Murphys,” Boston’s reigning kings of blue-collar punk barrel through 74 blistering minutes of music, delivering old favorites (“Boys on the Docks,” “Skinhead on the MBTA”) and punk-infused Irish folk songs (“Finnegan’s Wake...