Word: collaring
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Meals and Medicare. Also genuinely devoted to their pets are such people as Glen Crank, a blue-collar worker in Hammond, Ind., whose dependents include a poodle, a pointer, a Saint Bernard (caskless), a cat, a ferret and a cougar named Rajah; to defray Rajah's $1,000 acquisition costs, say the Cranks, they had to "eat beans for months." (They have since been forced by neighborhood pressure to give Rajah to a local zoo.) The potentates of petdom may well be the 65 dogs whose meals and Medicare are assured by the will of Quaker State Oil Heiress...
...them even accept journalists' assurances that new opportunities for women and blacks can only come at their expense, that leaves blacks, some women and the other wing of affirmative action's other supporters. It's probably a lot of not-so-well-off teachers, students, and other white-collar workers, and some younger professional people--a Village Voice readership instead of a New York magazine one, the kind of people who'd have been in the radical, non-socialist or moderately socialist wing of a 1930s Popular Front. Most of the old-time Democrats don't think much of these...
...support this kind of action (or inaction). A recession can be useful for them in slowing down inflation and in All workers 6.5 per cent Adult men 4.6 per cent Adult women 6.6 per cent Teenagers 17.3 per cent White 5.8 per cent Non-white 11.7 per cent Blue-collar 8.2 per cent White-collar 3.7 per cent
...economic program adopted by the delegates was less reminiscent of the social-action plans of the '60s than it was of the bread-and-butter reforms of the '30s, when Franklin D. Roosevelt pulled together North and South, laborers, farmers and white collar workers...
...White-collar employees are finding the current recession particularly unnerving, because companies are no longer as reluctant as they once were to furlough them. Chrysler has laid off 20,000 clerks, accountants and lower-level managers; Sears has let more than 200 executives and middle-management workers go in the past several weeks. Many big corporate employers have quietly frozen new hiring and are trying to whittle their staffs through attrition. At the same tune, employees are less eager to reach for early retirement at a tune of soaring inflation. The Chicago office of the Booz Allen executive recruiting firm...