Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them by failing to increase their stipends? He faces the same problem in the case of farm subsidies. They contribute to the costs of Government and the food bills of consumers, but they are also demanded by a powerful voting bloc. Reagan won support from middle-income and blue-collar workers, who make liberal use of low-interest student loans provided by the Government. The President will upset many hard-pressed families if he reduces or eliminates such aid. But if he does not, and if on top of the loans he urges tuition tax credits, he will make...
...dollar. Miller also helped talk the United Auto Workers into what Union President Douglas Fraser called "the worst economic settlement we've ever made." The U.A.W. leaders accepted $622 million in additional wage concessions in exchange for a package of noneconomic gains, including a blue-collar profit-sharing program. But Fraser pointed out that "the only thing worse is the alternative, and that is having no jobs." Finally, Chrysler's suppliers will agree to $72 million in price cuts. The total package will reduce the company's yearly operating costs by $500 million...
...ultimate insult to the blue-collar workers standing in long lines at the unemployment office will be a Civil Service robot electronically reporting, "Your claim...
...Chrysler itself will cut operating expenditures by reducing its white-collar payroll by another 2,200 people, to 21,800. The company will also scrap plans to enlarge its front-wheel-drive production capacity for 1984. Iacocca said that these measures alone would cut costs next year by $575 million...
...team player, and that tempers his conservatism." Still, Smith is likely to come down on the conservative side of several divisive issues now before the Justice Department. Conservatives hope that he will go slow on prosecution of sex and racial discrimination cases, emphasize street crime over white-collar offenses and relax some of the department's trust-busting zeal. But he tends to wield a scalpel rather than an ax, and zealous conservatives may be disappointed at his deliberate pace. Says Los Angeles Lawyer Leonard Janofsky, a former American Bar Association president: "He will analyze the pros and cons...