Word: collared
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...nearly bare head, combined with her wide, bright eyes, gives her a beautiful, birdlike appearance, like something newly hatched. She's wearing brown boots, a blue coat that drapes below her knees, black sunglasses perched on the top of her head and--most significant--a white priest's collar around her neck...
First as a blue-collar, non-Kennedy Catholic at Harvard; then as an enlisted soldier-law student in Vietnam; as a Republican Congressman from a mostly Democratic district and finally as a Republican governor in a mostly Democratic state...
Because of his family's blue-collar background, Russert had to work to put himself through college and law school. "For four summers, I picked up garbage, delivered the Buffalo News, made pizza, drove a cab," Russert told George magazine recently. "That was my summer vacation...
...served the mostly rural, blue- collar district ever since as their Republican Congressional representative...
They may spend as much as 60 hours a week creating lesson plans, teaching, advising students, grading, supervising extracurricular activities and meeting with colleagues and parents, yet teachers may earn 25% to 40% less than other white-collar professionals. While Frederica Capshaw, 52, is thrilled to be teaching math in a Bronx, N.Y., school district, she is aware of the price she paid for leaving American Express in 1992. "It has taken me eight years," she reports, "to catch up to the $52,000 I was making as a financial planner...