Word: collared
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Despite its wealth, Oakland is feeling pain from the economic downturn. The most recent round of auto-industry cuts has walloped white collar engineers and researchers who call Oakland County home. Take a drive through the hardest-hit neighborhoods, and you'll see blocks on which one-third or more of the houses have a FOR SALE sign planted in their front yard. The mix of layoffs and a depressed real estate market has forced some highly trained workers to take jobs in other states and leave their families behind in unsold homes...
...told tale of how he had the courage to go to Detroit and say the auto industry needed to raise fuel-efficiency standards. It was an obvious way to establish his reputation as a "different kind of politician." But it didn't help his relative weakness among blue collar voters. Now Obama has to run up a healthy margin among Oakland's affluent independents and Republicans, who have been crossing over to vote Democratic in recent elections. David Woodward, the county Democratic chairman, says many potential Obama supporters "are really moderate Republicans. They're pro-choice. Their hairstylists...
...Surveillance cameras in the blue-collar district of Gungoren show two young men placing two white plastic bags into a garbage bin on a street corner. After the first bomb exploded with deafening reverb, people rushed to the scene; it was then that a second bomb - packed with nails, bits of metal and TNT - went off. The attack killed 17 people and injured...
...money for the airline. The main reason: Barbados data processors are paid $2.20 an hour, much less than the $9 that American used to pay its U.S. keypunch operators to do the same work. American Airlines is one of a growing number of U.S. firms that are transferring white-collar work to Barbados, Jamaica and other locales abroad. Statistics on the trend are hard to come by, especially since many U.S. firms are eager to conceal the increasing extent of their foreign data-processing, engineering and computer activities. According to Harley Shaiken, a professor of information technology at the University...
...Ohio are still closing their doors. In many cases, older installations have been replaced by hundreds of smaller, more competitive plants, but the powerful images of smokeless smokestacks and dying industrial towns haunt many corners of the American landscape. Amid that painful change, the number of U.S. blue-collar jobs has dramatically declined, just as employment in the newer and often lower-paying service sector has soared. The trend will continue. The U.S. Department of Labor has projected that between 1984 and 1995 the economy will add 16 million new jobs. Almost 90% of them will be in services, even...