Word: collared
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Instead of racial tensions, the conflicts here are tribal: classroom cliques of jocks, nerds, skateboarders, cheerleaders. The movie suggests that, by junior year, kids are pigeon-holed in their groups, afraid to explore other, ornery dreams. Like white-collar wage slaves, but 30 years too early, they are undergoing a mid-teen crisis. The received wisdom (voiced in the most irresistible of the movie's nine radio-friendly songs) is to "Stick to the stuff you know... Stick to the status quo." Yet a few kids harbor subversive ambitions. The inner Troy wants to try out for the school musical...
...inaccessible. Others consider the campus a snobbish dungeon. A free Harvard would remake Harvard’s public image, ensuring a truly universal applicant pool. Secondly, students could forget about their summer expected earnings or work-study requirements and could fully focus on their studies and extracurriculars. White-collar parents’ nightmares about college would diminish, if not cease. Such a transformation would catapult Harvard back to its vaunted position as a moral leader through fabulous media buzz...
...pluck our grapes, stock our shelves, grill our burgers and clean our offices--for pay that lets us keep our own wallets plumper. Moreover, their domestic labor gives their employers more time to put into higher-paying work and leisure time. A vibrant laborer population could even create white-collar jobs, says Daniel Griswold, an immigration expert for the Cato Institute--say, for hotel managers hired to oversee expanding staffs. "Immigrant workers," he says, "make the economy more flexible, more dynamic...
Vultaggio is the blue-collar anti-CEO, a former truck driver and Brooklyn beer distributor who, with innovative packaging and consumer-friendly pricing, has built Arizona into the fastest-growing major bottled-tea brand in the country. And he has done it on his own terms, dismissing the conventional wisdom about management (chairmen schmooze; they don't reorganize warehouses in the middle of the night), finances (entrepreneurs sell out or go public as soon as they can) and marketing (consumer companies spend at least a few bucks on advertising to consumers) along the way. "Don came up from the bottom...
...sentiment that seemed to drive it, has alienated otherwise friendly conservative members of Britain's business class. Congress's continuing refusal to pass a bilateral extradition treaty that the British approved three years ago hasn't helped matters, since it makes it easier for the U.S. to extradite white collar criminals from the U.K. than vice versa. Adding insult to injury, last month the Pentagon decided to stop using British jet engine technology made by Rolls Royce for the Joint Strike Fighter planes that are still in development - a decision that the British are still heavily lobbying to reverse. With...