Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demise of the News American, which was owned by the New York-based Hearst Corp. Like many other afternoon dailies, the News American had suffered declining circulation for decades, from a peak of more than 200,000 in 1959 to some 100,000 this year. Many of its blue-collar readers were leaving Baltimore for the suburbs, while others were skipping the afternoon paper in favor of the evening television newscasts. Unprofitable for several years, the paper was losing an estimated $800,000 to $1 million a month at the end. When Hearst tried to sell it, most prospective buyers...
Cuomo, the paterfamilias, gives new meaning to the term hands-on management. Consider this for supervision: his longtime aide Tonio Burgos walks into the Governor's Manhattan office with a memorandum. "What's wrong with your collar?" asks the Governor. The tips of Burgos' collar are pointed up like butterfly wings. "Come here," orders Cuomo. The Governor reaches into his desk, takes out a paper clip and twists it. He then puts a hand on Burgos' shoulder, lifts up his collar and inserts the paper clip so that it acts as a collar stay. Same thing on the other side...
...children and were living in the five-bedroom Cape Cod-style house in Holliswood, Queens, that Andrea Cuomo had built for them. Cuomo was his papa's boy: he worked all the time. But he grew restive. He needed a cause and found one in a group of blue- collar, mostly Italian families from Corona, Queens, who were trying to prevent the city from tearing down their houses for a new school. After six years, Cuomo won a compromise that saved nearly all the homes...
...court the Baby Boom voters--Democrat Gary Hart and Republican Jack Kemp--are 49 and 50 years old, respectively. It would not be surprising if a Baby Boom leader emerged from outside the political realm, but none pops to mind--even if Bruce Springsteen might carry the young blue collar vote...
...into retirement. I used to think I could have both, but now I feel sort of misled." Yet many women cannot afford to quit. "Wives have been working because their families need the money," says University of Wisconsin Business School Professor Dowell Myers. "Most women are still working pink collar. They're not in a career. They're in it because they need the bucks...