Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the biggest problem is strategy. Anderson has won a core of devoted followers, but it is limited, consisting largely of white-collar workers and well-educated suburbanites who worry about whales, pollution and consumerism. He will be heavily tempted to turn to left-liberal groups who supply eager donors and doorbell ringers, but that could stamp his campaign with an elitist label that could be fatal. Anderson knows he must broaden his appeal to blacks, blue-collar workers, white ethnic groups, but is only now mulling over how to do so. His national unity theme, seeking to win votes...
...regular meetings with workers on company time to discuss worker complaints and ideas for boosting efficiency. In order to turn the gripe sessions into something more substantive, both sides agreed to bring in an outside consultant to organize worker-participation projects. They chose Sydney Rubinstein, 52, a former blue-collar tool-and-die worker and white-collar engineer, who had become an expert on worker innovation and productivity...
Opponents of the plan said provisions should be included to guarantee that many of the jobs created would attract blue-collar workers...
Wylie said the increased development would create blue-collar as well as white-collar jobs. "A large number of these employment opportunities could be made available to Cambridge youths," Wylie said...
...White-Collar Crime. At first the Senate bill contained several measures making companies and executives more vulnerable to criminal law. For example, one provision was that officials could be tried for "reckless endangerment" if, say, their firm dumped harmful chemicals into a river feeding a municipal water supply. But business lobbyists persuaded the drafters to remove the most stringent measures. The Department of Justice managed to get some of the provisions restored, but only in diluted form. Even so, the Senate bill is tougher than the House version, which, according to Justice, now contains fewer sanctions involving white-collar crime...