Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cost of white-collar crime, such as embezzlement, consumer frauds and petty theft from businesses, "dwarfs" that of all crimes of violence. Property losses from both kinds of crime total more than $3 billion a year...
...United States. Nine out of ten of their families own their own home and three out of four live in the suburbs. Almost half of their fathers are businessmen, while almost 40 per cent are professional men. Less than one per cent of the fathers are occupied as blue-collar workers. In 90 percent of these '140 families, one or both of the parents attended college, and in 60 per cent of the families at least one parent went to graduate school...
Only a handful of the festival films are nonmusicals, but they too are strictly Celluloid City. In Kitty Foyle, Ginger's apotheosis of the gallant American White Collar Girl won her an Oscar. In Magnificent Doll, she plays Dolley Madison. Forced into a role that is above her head and a script that is beneath her, she utters Dolley's immortal words to the jailed traitor Aaron Burr (David Niven): "I hope all this will make you think, Aaron...
...intent of the new bail act, passed eight months ago, was to reinforce a long-ignored principle: defendants should not be jailed before trial merely because they cannot afford bail. All very well, since many federal criminal cases involve white-collar crimes and relatively responsible defendants. But the law has run onto a prickly shoal in Washington, D.C., where federal courts handle all kinds of violent big-city crimes. As a result, a grand jury has just returned the first bail-jumping indictment under the new no-bail setup. On the second day of his trial for robbery and assault...
...will be able to adjust to the new community. At the same time, church representatives canvass likely Northern communities to check on the availability of jobs and housing and the outlook for proselyting. Stamford, for example, was chosen because it had a good labor market for professional and white-collar workers...