Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While O'Neill felt more comfortable with the largely ethnic, blue collar constituency of Cambridge, rather than the more intellectual university crowd of Harvard, Tufts, and MIT, he rarely failed to introduce and support bills favorable to the entire district...
AFSCME hopes to make HUCTW a symbol of the new kind of white-collar organizing that unions will face in the eighties. But leaders of HUCTW, which began its organizing drive in the early seventies in the Medical Area, say they are still relying on the same grassroots techniques they have used for the last 16 years...
...state department of corrections announced last week that it had finally found a home for Singleton. His new address: Richmond (pop. 78,000), a blue collar Contra Costa suburb of San Francisco. State officials were unclear about whether Singleton would stay permanently in the area, but his neighbors certainly acted as if he was there for good. Some 200 protesters rallied at Richmond's city hall, chanting "He must go!" and listening to local politicians denounce Singleton. Said Mayor George Livingston: "My suggestion would be to put him on the barge where that garbage is and let him float away...
While questionable business practices are nothing new, the vulnerability of today's economy to rampant white-collar crime is setting off alarms. Particularly in the service industry, stealing has become easier than ever to pull off and to rationalize. White-collar workers are harried by competition, given new power by computers, tempted by electronic flows of cash, and possessed of a strong appetite for status symbols. Result: what began as the decade of the entrepreneur is fast becoming the age of the pinstriped outlaw, his prodigal twin. The white-collar crime wave is already spurring an antibusiness backlash, which could...
...someone who remembered seeing the 6-ft. 4-in. blond at the Aloha Towers condo near Waikiki. The marshals staked out the lobby and grabbed Kesselman when he stepped off an elevator with a couple of women. "He was very surprised," says Deputy Marshal Gary Shuler, who made the collar. "If it hadn't been for WANT, there's no question that this guy would still be out there...