Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Palermo, buses and trains came to a halt, airports shut down, and courts, banks and government offices closed as some 12 million workers last week staged a four-hour walkout. In the country's first general strike in three years, factory workers and police officers, teachers and students, white-collar workers and pensioners marched through city streets under banners demanding more money for health and education and less for defense...
Inevitably some white residents of neighborhoods in transition, especially those populated by working-class families, extend something less than a hearty welcome to those who cross the color line. A scribbled message on a shopping center wall in Yeoville, a blue-collar Johannesburg neighborhood, sums up the animosity: INTEGRATION STINKS. In Bertrams, another working-class neighborhood of Johannesburg, a white woman who lives on a street whose residents are mostly black, colored or Indian, voices a typical complaint. "If they lived one family to a flat, it wouldn't be so bad," she says. "But there are so many that...
...some point has been all of the evils he describes. But Washington is something more: it is history stretching back two centuries, an accumulation of the experience of politicians, lobbyists, journalists, tycoons, labor skates, hustlers, social climbers, clergy, judges, tourists, professors, bureaucrats and any number of crooks, white collar and otherwise. In short, it has served as America come to the front office to complain. Washington is bigger, lustier and louder than ever, and it is still the final point of impact on the presidency...
Giuliani also said that there have been more prosecutions of white collar criminals, including insider traders, bribe-takers, and perpetrators of securities fraud...
...killing stunned residents of the blue-collar community, where many were unaware that a drug problem existed. "Ours is no worse than other towns, certainly not as bad as Dallas," said School Counselor Perry Elkins. At the trim pebblestone school, where short skirts and exposed shirttails are banned, only four students have been dismissed for drug use in four years, and a surprise inspection with drug-sniffing dogs last year turned up nothing...