Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liability to anyone reporting "in good faith." Already 21 states have enacted some form of the law. The New Jersey assembly did so last spring, for example, after being horror-struck by the case of a six-year-old girl whom police found badly beaten and wearing a dog collar around her neck...
...party convention delegates gathered in Karlsruhe last week, all the indices looked good. Their leaders had transformed a blue-collar, militant workers' movement into a broad-based, respectable middle-class party that hard ly ever mentions Marx. Alone or in coalition, Socialists now rule five of West Germany's eleven states and 48 of the nation's biggest cities. In Septem ber they scored impressive gains in local elections in the Saar and Rhineland, whose formerly hostile Catholic populations know that the "new" Socialists have abandoned their attacks on the church. The latest national public opin...
...journalists can polish off their stories in the mornings, devoting afternoons and evenings to Parliament. One of the busiest M.P.s is Tory Backbencher Sir Cyril Black, who at last count was chairman of some 40 companies and director of a dozen more. But the increasing number of teachers, white-collar employees and workers among M.P.s have a much harder time dividing their careers this way. Besides, with the growing amount of complex homework to be done, Parliament is becoming more and more of a round-the-clock...
...Eiseman didn't wait to get into a rocker-barely, in fact, got out of the cradle before taking to a needle and thread. But not until her two sons went off to college in the 1940s could she find the time to do more than turn a collar or darn a sock...
...command to give everyone more responsibilities, created a president's council in which he and his lieutenants can make decisions without indulging in the long delays and lengthy memos that once characterized Westinghouse. He slashed costs by more than $20 million by getting rid of 3,825 white-collar employees, shaved inventories by $8,000,000 with a telecomputer center outside Westinghouse's Pittsburgh headquarters that flashes orders to far-flung warehouses and reminds them to restock...