Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...able-bodied Americans are out of work. William Rentschler, who directed the Nixon campaign in Illinois in 1968, wrote the President last week that Republican politicians in his state are in "serious jeopardy" because of the economy. Unemployment and inflation are not only hurting the blacks and blue-collar workers, but cutting dangerously into Nixon's prime constituency. Rentschler cited farmers who are crying about a cost-price squeeze and middle-income executives who are being thrown out of jobs...
...earlier, moving on at the age of 17 to jobs, college or a year off to reconnoiter their futures. It is a proposal of such staggering simplicity that it is already meeting opposition. Teachers object that it could require them to retrain in order to teach younger children. Blue-collar parents worry that the plan would throw even more jobseekers into competition for already scarce work. In fact, however, the idea of an accelerated curriculum has been endorsed by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education (TIME, Dec. 7), and is under consideration in several states, including Rhode Island...
...workers choose to exercise their freedom is an intriguing study in psychology. White-collar workers tend to punch in late and work late; factory men usually come early and leave early. The experiment has attracted the attention of the German government, which allows most of the 1,000 employees of the Transport Ministry to arrive and leave within two-hour margins. The Bonn Cabinet will review results and decide whether to extend staggered working hours throughout the government. Unions are paying attention too. They are asking for a 2% raise for workers on staggered hours, arguing that it is justifiable...
...this book, for instance, Coles condenses talk and comment, going back as much as five years, with a handful of workingmen and their wives-a steam fitter, a policeman, a filling-station operator, a machinist, a fireman, a welder, a druggist and a bank-loan arranger, the only white-collar man in the group...
...saying that everything will be okay because, "No one can take himself altogether seriously in bell-bottoms." And moral outrage-however correct-summoned up upon convenience for its publicity value produces atrocities like the U. S. Government's current prosecution of the son of a blue-collar family for murdering civilians in Vietnam...