Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days later, as Dornan was walking out of the House chamber, put a hand on the Californian's arm to prevent him from leaving. Asked Downey: "Did you say those things about me?" Dornan wheeled around. "Yes. So what?" Moments later, Dornan grabbed the babyfaced New Yorker by the collar and tie, pulled him close and warned, "Stay out of my face, now and forever...
...what?" Dornan asked a Washington Post reporter. "For calling him a wimp? I am willing to concede that perhaps he just walks, talks and acts like a little arrogant wimp. But maybe it's disinformation." In the end, though, Dornan wimped out. What was he doing with Tom's collar in his fist? "I was just straightening...
Although the end of the dramatic struggle for Phillips (1984 sales: $15.7 billion) came as a relief to many local residents, others remained nervous. Phillips' 7,800 employees in Bartlesville, mostly white-collar professionals who make up 40% of the town's work force, were assured that their company would remain under local control; yet some jobs will probably be lost. Shareholders saw the price of their Phillips stock rise from less than $40 when the battle began to the mid-50s in December and close last week at 49 3/ 8. The clearest winners were the raiders. Centimillionaires already...
South African law reserves virtually all highly skilled and white collar jobs for whites, and prohibits Blacks from supervising whites, thus rendering worthless Harvard's requirement that portfolio companies institute fair employment and management training programs for non-whites. There is, after all, no apparent reason to teach workers skills that it is illegal for them to use. The validity of the equal pay for equal work concept is likewise obscure in the context of South African law; in a country that forbids equal access to education and jobs, there is no equal work...
...Suarez legend continues to grow in Bolivia, even if many of the stories told about him are probably wildly exaggerated. He has been seen carrying a gold-plated handgun and keeps a pet leopard, said to wear a gold collar studded with diamonds, near his side at his ranch in the Beni. In interviews with journalists, Suarez has boasted that he has hired Libyan "experts" to train his security force and that his ranchland retreats are defended by missile-carrying aircraft. He also likes to buy newspaper space to lecture his countrymen on the corruption in their government...