Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visit to Peking, Haig sought to reassure the Chinese leadership that the U.S. had not in fact changed its position. Even before Haig had left Peking, President Reagan undercut him by telling a press conference: "I have not changed my feelings about Taiwan." The Chinese were upset enough to collar Haig at the airport, minutes before his scheduled departure, and upbraid him for the President's remarks. Since then, the attacks on Washington's Taiwan policy have grown steadily harsher...
...skilled labor force is eroding on two fronts. Young people going to work are choosing, or being steered into, white-collar jobs outside of factories. At the same time, experienced journeymen, many of whom learned their trades during World War II, are retiring at a rapid rate. The U.S. Labor Department estimates that there will be an average of 31,000 new skilled labor openings for machinists and machine operators annually until 1990. But only 2,300 new workers qualify for such jobs each year...
...easy to see why. Standing next to a hot, vibrating, metalworking machine eight hours a day is demanding and physically taxing, but it is also boring and often dangerous. Blue-collar workers are seldom depicted as heroic in popular American culture; indeed, like the television characters Archie Bunker and Laverne and Shirley, they are frequently ridiculed...
...such jobs require more schooling than many white-collar professions. To become a journeyman diemaker, an apprentice must complete 8,000 hours, or four years, of shop work, practicing on-the-job skills for an average of just $4 an hour. In addition, the apprentice must also finish 600 hours of course work in a vocational school or an in-house training program. As skills improve, earnings pull ahead. In many shops a full-fledged diemaker can make as much as $40,000 yearly, with overtime. Such jobs in the U.S. rank seventh in lifetime earnings, behind insurance and real...
...cooperating with France's Peugeot in the joint design and construction of a new model. By closing plants and laying off workers, Chrysler has also slashed its fixed spending and operating costs by another $2 billion. It has closed eight plants, laid off 22,000 white-collar workers and put thousands of hourly workers on indefinite layoff...