Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looking for blue collar workers, white collar workers, people who look like lawyers, judges, hoods, thugs--we're even looking for good hookers. We always need plenty of those on Spenser," added Mandell...
...amounts to only $6,968 a year. For that reason, McDonald's has been singled out as evidence of the booming service economy's inability to create dignified and meaningful new work. Says Robert Reich, a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government: "Compared to the old blue-collar jobs that have been lost, these jobs represent a serious setback...
...optimistic economic vision in its stead. His fervent embrace of the supply-side faith and its feel-good gospel of growth is more than just a political platform. It is a personal creed that has fueled his career and helped him develop a blend of conservatism and blue-collar populism that he sees as the natural extension of Ronald Reagan's legacy...
...ebullient Kemp, a conservative mirror image of Hubert Humphrey, loves to talk. When he is minutes into a speech, his head bobs back and forth, as if straining against a too-tight collar and tiepin. He plants his feet far apart and unfurls his arms, flexing his fingers to pantomime an expression like "quote, unquote." He speaks so quickly, using so many facts and historical allusions, that he often fails to engage his audience. His aides have given him a digital stopwatch to remind him to keep it short...
...paid most of their attention to domestic markets, must become more aggressive in going after foreign sales. American managers also need to take a leaf out of Japanese manuals about greater worker involvement in product quality control. The U.S. education system needs vast improvement before it can produce blue- collar graduates on a par with Japanese production workers. If U.S. businessmen want to penetrate foreign markets, there will have to be much greater emphasis in U.S. schools on the successful learning of foreign languages...