Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, in the last ten years, blue-collar industries have moved out of the city, resulting in a sharp rise in unemployment for unskilled and semi-skilled workers. Lacking jobs and facing rising rents, these people have had to move out of Cambridge or into substandard housing within the city...
...efficiency." In the present climate, that notion sounds almost quaint. Equally quaint, perhaps, would be the ideas that hard work really is a virtue, that blue-collar jobs have dignity, and that increased leisure must be paid for in productivity?or a debilitating price spiral. Yet if any lesson is to be learned from the current surge of inflation, it is the simple and indisputable fact that there is no such thing as a free lunch...
...this moment has come upon us. Now there's automation, we have the computer. This applies to white collar as well as blue, of course. The bank teller, she's wondering about her work: Is it that important? Remember the marvelous fireman at the end of the book, Tommy Patrick...
...national committees of both parties gave most of their attention to the race in Ohio's First District, which encompasses the eastern half of Cincinnati and suburban Hamilton County. The district is mostly white collar and prosperous; in 1972 it gave 70.3% of the vote to Republican William J. Keating, who resigned late last year. To succeed him, both parties nominated well-known and longtime city councilmen: Democrat Thomas Luken, 49, a lawyer and former Assistant U.S. Attorney; and Republican Willis Gradison Jr., 45, a wealthy stockbroker. Both had served as mayor-in Cincinnati, a post filled by vote...
...technique used in the 1800s in which a prisoner is choked to death and his spine snapped by an iron collar being tightened around his neck...