Word: collared
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Each candidate struggled last night to make a broad appeal to voters in what is a highly diverse Senate district that includes the tony Agassiz neighborhood of Cambridge and the blue-collar towns of Revere and Everett, as well as Harvard’s Yard dorms, the Law School, Adams House and the Quad...
...Sopranos has always been masterly at being timeless and up to the moment at once. In the late '90s, the show was a tale of moral struggles in boom times. It analogizes even better to the white-collar scandals of 2002. "The Enrons, the Grubmans and the Global Crossings ... those guys are bigger criminals than the Sopranos," says Pantoliano. "The thing I like about The Sopranos is that if you cross someone, there is retribution. If you are a rat, you will be punished...
...corporate executives are no better than common thieves when they betray their employees and steal from their investors." He noted that the WorldCom executives could face as much as 65 years in prison, which legal experts dismissed as prosecutorial hyperbole. Yet as former federal prosecutor and Los Angeles white-collar defense lawyer Mark Beck notes, "The criminal sanction is so severe that it can motivate someone to play ball and become a government witness in exchange for leniency...
...July, Springsteen and the E Street Band were holed up in a small theater on the Fort Monmouth Army base, cramming for a 46-city tour that starts Aug. 7. During a break backstage, the band members were playing their consummate blue-collar roles. Guitarist "Little" Steven Van Zandt says he has to move out of his Eighth Avenue apartment in Manhattan after 20 years. "The place is fallin' apart." Drummer Max Weinberg suggests Steve check out a place in the legendary Upper West Side apartment building the Dakota; Van Zandt looks as if he has just been told...
...increasing numbers of sedentary white-collar workers come to grips with love handles, so too are people like Renrui embracing the fitness culture of their yuppie counterparts in the West. Upscale fitness clubs and gyms are spreading in prosperous cities, while sales of sporting goods have grown from $1.3 billion in 1996 to $1.7 billion in 2000, a 30% rise. "Ten years ago, nobody talked about working out," says Guo Qilong, an editor at the national magazine Southern Sports. "Now there is a very stable industry that's starting to provide more services and focus more on individual needs...