Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party's first annual conference in October to their feet, cheering. Explained Williams confidently: "We have to take impossible risks." She promptly began to walk through every neighborhood and ring doorbells in every corner of the three-ward Crosby district, which has a population ranging from blue-collar Laborites to professional-class Conservatives...
...Lexington, Mass., consulting firm, foresees marked Christmas-spending cutbacks among lower-and middle-income people. These are the consumers who depend most heavily on revolving credit, where interest rates sometimes reach 20% and 21% for purchase payments dragged beyond 30 days. Says Eckstein: "The more you go into blue-collar items, which are found in stores like Sears and K mart, the worse the prospects." Adds Robert Sakowitz, president of the tony Sakowitz stores in Texas: "The people who merchandise in the mediocre middle are going to be hurt...
Many of these gray areas are abandoned or decaying. But some of Archie's working-class neighborhoods are holding their ground. Most of these were houses built from the 1890s to the 1920s, when chimney-studded industrial plants belched soot over entire neighborhoods. Blue-collar housing consisted of look-alike cottages or row houses. But after World War II, in their own dogged kind of urban renewal, more affluent workers began to alter their monotone dwellings. They painted them in pinks and greens, sheathed them in asbestos shingles, ersatz clapboard or fake stone and brick and punched outsized suburban...
...folks in Dallas, Houston is a loud, boorish, blue-collar place, overwhelmed by nouveau riche high rollers and overrun with Cadillacs and pickup trucks. To folks in Houston, Dallas is a dull, snobbish, white-collar town, dominated by banking and defense interests, and overrun with Rolls-Royces and Mercedes...
...part of the country would identify them as medium-priced whores." Children's clothing conveys different kinds of signals, Lurie believes. Working-class children don suits and fancy dresses for a weekend outing. The middle-class kids are the ones in jeans, sneakers and T shirts. The blue-collar children express upward aspirations by their miniature adult costumes; the white-collar children, notes Lurie, "are not expected to do more than equal their parents' status, and at the moment they are on probation...