Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston's troubles are rooted in a social trend that began in the early '50s: the shift in white collar population, and the political and financial power that they embody, from the cities to the suburbs. This trend had two disastrous effects on Boston. The city lost to the suburbs its strong influence over the state government, and the Boston tax base began to crumble rapidly...
...rose steadily. Moreover, 48 per cent of Boston's land, including colleges, hospitals, cultural institutions, state property, and federal property, was, and still is tax exempt. Attempts to cover the spiralling costs by raising the tax rate merely resulted in the further shrinkage of the tax base as white collar professionals fled the city for the lower property tax levies of the suburbs. The state legislature, controlled by the suddenly powerful combination of suburbs and the western districts, refused, and continues to refuse, to help the city cope with its "Catch-22" predicament...
...decline of the New York press continues apace. Last year saw the invasion of sensation-mongoring marsupial Rupert Murdoch; it has taken the money-mad Presslord Erom Down Under less than a year to transform the New York Post fro a blue-collar version of the New York Times into a frighteningly creditable imitation of the New York Daily News...
...Museum of Art, was painted a kind of Nile blue. The Fairmont Hotel opened a tent restaurant outside the museum with such specialties as Sphinxburger, Queen Nefertiti's Salad and Ramses' Gumbo. Bourbon Street Exotic Dancer Chris Owens, in a new Egyptian costume complete with vulture collar and emblems of the god Ra, is gyrating through a routine entitled "Pharaoh's Favorite Toy." The New Leviathan Oriental Fox Trot Orchestra has released an Old King Tut album, and Tut T shirts are also catching on. For those who must wait outside the museum, 16 portable "Tutlets...
Vincent J. Sirabella, business agent for local 35, said yesterday his union, which consists of "exclusively blue collar types of workers," is the only one on the Yale campus. It represents all dining hall workers, maintenance men, custodial staff, mechanics and skilled tradesmen. The union is demanding an eight per cent increase for each of three years for all workers, Sirabella said...