Word: collared
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...fashionable. Son of a store owner in the mining town of Douglas, Ariz., he played football at Berkeley, then went East and upended movie criticism. Writing for the New Republic, the Nation, Time, Cavalier and a host of art and film journals, Farber elevated the reps of blue collar directors while snipering critics' darlings like Hitchcock and Welles. (Citizen Kane was "exciting but hammy.") He sold these advanced ideas through the startling sprung rhythm of his prose, packing an essay's worth of insights into a parenthetical aside, leaving the alert reader exhausted and grateful...
...says Thomas Riehle, a partner at RT Strategies, a bipartisan polling firm in Washington. "In other words, people who don't need a President can afford to vote for Obama because he's exciting, represents change, etc." Which is why, Riehle says, Obama did so badly in some blue collar areas - places along the Ohio River, for example, where Clinton beat him by two- and three-to-one margins...
...Obama, however, could also get a boost from a constituency less than enthusiastic about his candidacy. Hesitancy over Obama among blue-collar and union voters might be neutralized by turnout to vote against a cluster of initiatives aimed at curbing the power of Colorado's unions. Amendment 47 would let workers opt out of joining a union; Initiative 59 bans unions that have collective-bargaining agreements with the state government from donating campaign cash. Angry union leaders have vowed to kills these measures. Professor Kenneth Bickers, chair of the political science department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, predicts...
Facebook shuts down SCRABULOUS, tripling white collar productivity...
...coal. You may not remember this plan, because Gore's political consultants decided it didn't "test" well. It has now been revived by Obama, who has been logging a lot of phone time with Gore. But Obama has changed the emphasis a bit to promote "green collar" job development, like programs to retrofit public buildings to conserve energy. Obama also has a new take on traditional infrastructure spending, designed to limit cronyism: a $6 billion-per-year federal infrastructure bank, where loans to states and localities would have to be approved by a bipartisan board of governors appointed...