Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want more assurances that it will not be just highly technological jobs that are created, that there will be a certain percentage for blue-collar workers," Danehy said...
Last week Ford Motor Co., which is expected to lose $1 billion on domestic car operations in 1980, announced the permanent closing of its assembly plant in Mahwah, N.J., shut down smaller operations in Dearborn, Mich., and Windsor, Ont, and cut 15,000 blue-and white-collar jobs. Time may be running short for Chrysler. Sales are off 26% from 1979's already depressed levels, and the company is making a herculean cost-cutting and consolidation effort in order to qualify for $1.5 billion in federal guaranteed loans. Even mighty General Motors last week put 12,000 more workers...
Both Kennedy and Bush won sizable majorities among Pennsylvania blacks, ABC exit polls showed. Kennedy also led Carter among Catholics, blue-collar union workers, and among people who cited the economy as a main concern...
...Blue-collar workers may also get their time on TV. One comedy, Hole 22, goes on below ground, where construction workers are building a subway, and two shows deal with the hilarious goings-on around the garbage truck. Garbage Is My Life may turn up on ABC, and Garbage may air on NBC. Many viewers may have an unhappy sense of déjà vu. The Silverman network also has a fondness for dogs. Here's Boomer, the saga of the world's smartest mutt, is already on the schedule, and next year it may be frolicking...
Kilbourne cited several advertisements that illustrate men as the dominant sex, pointing out that in the Wisk "ring-around-the-collar" commercial, "no one ever wonders why the man doesn't wash his neck...