Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invented the detached collar...
...among them are 8.5 million wage earners, 31 million Social Security recipients, 20 million people who receive food stamps, and 2.5 million retired military and federal employees. But the index has had two serious drawbacks: it is based on the spending patterns of only urban blue-collar and clerical employees, who now constitute less than 45% of the population, and it was compiled by pricing a "market basket" of goods and services compiled back...
...more. Last week the bureau began issuing not one but two new CPls. The first new index, still focused on blue-collar workers and clerical employees, updates their spending habits through surveys of family budgets taken in 1972-73 and rigorously analyzed ever since. The second (CPI-U) reflects the new spending patterns not just of wage earners but of "all urban consumers," including, for example, retired people and self-employed professionals; it is supposed to reflect the way 80% of Americans spend their money...
...Blue Collar. At the Beacon Hill, starting Friday (call 723-8110 for times...
Justice officials, TIME has learned, now regard it as certain that Flood will be indicted. Says one Government investigator: "We have 175 possible cases." According to Elko, the mustachioed Congressman who represents blue-collar Wilkes-Barre was Congress's most successful "muscler," an official who used his considerable influence to direct federal contracts to people and companies that said "thank you" in cash. Other Congressmen and many friends of Flood's will probably be touched by the investigation, which is already becoming known as "Floodgate." The House ethics committee is expected this week to name a special counsel and staff...