Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hard Times and the CTOC contend that the plan would destroy more blue-collar jobs than it would create, and that it also fails to provide any low-income housing. The Council will study the plan in subcommittee meetings before reaching any decision...
...adjacent property known as the Quadrangle would be reserved for business and industrial purposes, providing the maximum number of jobs for Cambridge residents and blue-collar workers...
Sister Loretta Monahan, another spokesman for Hard Times, said after the meeting that the CRA plan represented a gradual "piecemeal" takeover of Kendall Square by business and white-collar interests. "If we didn't organize and get the people here, the City Council would have passed the resolution," she said. "We don't trust them...
...returning prisoners of war adds several dimensions to the Soldier's repeated complaint, "I'm a ghost among the living, "merely by putting him in Vietnam-style fatigues, and then compounds the effect by letting the devil, for all the world like a suburban liberal, offer him a blue collar...
...1970s will require education beyond high school. Yet the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education forecast last week that two-thirds of America's high school graduates will be continuing their schooling. Already, according to the commission, nearly 30% of male graduates of four-year colleges are in blue-collar, sales and clerical jobs. There seems likely to be even more serious underemployment of talent in the future. In fact, the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare projects that over the next decade an average of 2½ people will be competing for every job that actually requires...