Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Committee during the campaign, is being touted for Secretary of Transportation; Manuel Lujan Jr., 52, a little-known New Mexico Republican Congressman, is being discussed for Secretary of the Interior; Raymond Donovan, 50, an even lesser-known New Jersey contractor with a reputation for getting along with blue-collar unionists, is being tapped to become Secretary of Labor...
...reaction to a simple football match seems exaggerated or inappropriate, consider Pittsburgh for a moment. Primarily a blue-collar worker's town, most of the people who live here, from lawyers to contractors to mill workers to coal miners, are in some way involved in the steel industry. Consider also, that the recent slump in the steel market, aggravated in part by the recession and by competitive foreign steel markets such as Japan's and West Germany's, has forced many plants to close down, leaving many thousands of steel workers unemployed. The layoff of the steelworkers has serious repercussions...
...world works. What this amounts to is nothing less than a robot revolution. It promises to revive decaying industries and give smaller firms all the benefits of mass production. Ultimately, it may also transform the way society itself is organized and the way it assesses its values. These steel-collar workers already paint cars, assemble refrigerators, drill aircraft wings, mine coal and, for that matter, wash windows; newer robots now on the drawing boards will soon be spraying crops with pesticides, digging up minerals deep under the oceans and repairing satellites in outer space. Not too far off, experts predict...
...call in sick on Mondays, does not become bored, does not take vacations or qualify for pensions-and does not leave Coca-Cola cans rattling around inside the products it has helped assemble. Its "up time" on the job averages around 95% (the figure for the average blue-collar worker is about 75%). In addition to its Horatio Alger work habits, it is immune to government and union regulations on heat, fumes, noise, radiation and other safety hazards. The robot has no affections or passions. If you prick it, it does not bleed. If you poison it, it does...
...earlier era, hardly a soul would have dared impugn the veracity of the Crown for fear of losing his liberty, perhaps even his head. Not today, and not the proudly blue-collar Sunday Mirror. "We take great care to get our facts right," Editor Robert Edwards stiffly informed the palace in a letter last week. He declined to apologize...