Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opposition between management and workers because every manager comes up the ladder from employee. We do not call our employees workers or laborers, but associates instead. One reason everyone at Sony wears the same blue-gray jacket is that we are saying Sony is a working company, a blue-collar company all the way from the top to the bottom...
Terror in Birmingham. Ernest Nunnally, 80, a retired refrigeration mechanic, and his wife Perry, 76, both white, were sitting in their 57-year-old house in a blue-collar neighborhood of Birmingham when two young white men pounded on their door. "You come out here," one said to Nunnally. "We don't want the woman. We want you." Peering out, Nunnally thought he saw one of the men holding a rope or chain. As they pulled on the door, breaking its bolt, Nunnally grabbed a gun and fired through a curtained door window...
...notice. The number of competitors means that the seller and the buyer can more easily bargain for deals. These conditions, for example, are found in contracts for the sale of telecommunications equipment or aircraft and for most construction programs. Says Jules Kroll, a New York-based consultant on white-collar crime: "If there's only one or two companies bidding on a deal, it might go down very straight. But if you've eight guys who can do it, then people are going to get creative...
...housing, crime, the normal distances between the too rich and the too poor. Terms like white flight and steering have become so comfortable in the national argot that one almost forgets that they are weapons. Affirmative action has helped split black and white as well, particularly black and blue collar and black and Jew, on the issue of quotas. Then too there are the white lies told daily in the universities by fainthearted, if well-meaning, professors writing false recommendations for unprepared black students for jobs in which they are bound to fail; the professors then are lost in dismay...
Because Harris has been convicted of murder, she must serve her time at a maximum-security prison, not one of the fenced-in "country clubs" favored by Watergate felons and other white-collar convicts. Her home will be the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, 47 miles northeast of New York City. Despite its red brick colonial buildings and its playing fields, Bedford Hills is a long way from Madeira. Outside there is a 12-ft.-high chain-link fence topped with barbed wire; inside there are 360 two-story cellblocks...