Word: collared
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...that has afflicted the companies' management structure as much as the guts of the planes themselves. Airbus, a four-nation consortium backed by millions of euros of taxpayers' money, was once hailed as a model of European industrial cooperation. In fact, its structure, which distributes management and blue-collar jobs among its various state and private owners, has turned Airbus into a nightmare of corporate governance. It has become an enterprise in which political considerations carry more weight than commercial ones, where horse-trading trumps industrial efficiency, and where the national interests of its partners are balanced so carefully that...
...gratuities as pocket money, and had continued to blow most of them," he writes. "'Live for the moment' had been my motto, and the moments had been many and memorable." Thus, at the end of it all, Moss is broke and living, astonishingly, among the masses in a blue-collar housing estate, dependent for a time on handouts from friends, of which he deservedly has many (the abandoned boy that Moss sheltered decades ago, now married and middle class, returns to make his old benefactor a gift of almost $30,000). Far from being bitter about his circumstances, Moss merely...
...gnarly crime plot, this one dares to strain credulity. Once or twice, a skeptical viewer may ask, What are the odds? The odds that Billy would commit all manner of crimes, to prove his underworld bona fides, and never get so much as an interested glance, let alone a collar, from the cops who don't know he's one of them. The odds that Colin would rise so quickly in the force, and be deemed so trustworthy that he'd be assigned to sleuth out the rat on the team - himself. The Departed adds one coincidence even the Hong...
...WHITE YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID He's a genial Texas version of the devil. Dressed in black, holding a cigar and a glass of scotch, flashing a wicked smile that makes him look like Gary Busey's smarter brother, White is the bad boy of Blue Collar TV. In this short (41 min.) set, he makes the usual public issues of private parts, honeymoon tiffs and a persistent fan who cornered White and wouldn't shut up ("He raped my ear"). The material is just O.K., but the salesmanship is expert. He's a natural-born charmer with just...
Phantom pain was a daily topic at OT--occupational therapy, the whittling porch for amputees. I made my first friends there. Most of my neighbors were half my age and from different backgrounds, small-town boys who had passed up college or blue-collar trades for a military life. I was urban, overeducated, untattooed and distrustful of uniforms and blind patriotism. But I soon discovered that I shared something with those soldiers larger than the differences in our biographies. We were men struggling for identity. The psychological scars of amputation ran deeper than those from conventional wounds...