Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They believe that they are fishing in a huge and untapped reservoir of potential Republicans, and that the G.O.P. can become the majority party by expanding its natural base to include ethnic and blue-collar Democrats who worry about high taxes and crime. Kemp, one of the few prominent Republicans to attend the National Urban League convention in July, said last week: "We cannot move our party ahead by leaving anyone on the sidelines. That requires reaching out to labor, reaching out to minorities, particularly blacks." Not coincidentally, the leading young Turks, New York's Kemp and Georgia...
...account at Dean Witter Reynolds, the stockbroker that Sears bought in 1981. At the other end of the scale, a third of American households earning less than $10,000 are Sears customers too. Sears studies show that 86% of its customers are married, 54% have children, 54% are white collar, 28% blue collar and 18% retired or unemployed...
...gray stone Hope Park church in St. Andrews, Scotland. Said Pastor William Henney as the service started: "We give a special welcome to Jim Nelson, who starts a probationary period with us. We wish him a happy time among us." Clergy Candidate Nelson, clad in black gown and clerical collar, showed barely a trace of nervousness as he began his duties by reading the Scripture lessons from Luke 12 and Acts...
...Mondale strategy is clearly that if they can excite the old coalition-blacks, minorities, blue collar and so forth-they can get a higher turnout and win because of the number of Democrats. The Republicans' strategy is to make that [younger] generation believe that they are the party of the future and the Democratic Party is the party of the past...
Looking mighty Establishment in his white open-collar shirt and navy-blue suit, John Carlos sits at a table in the headquarters of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, where he now works. Behind one shoulder the American flag, behind the other the Olympic. But for a bum ankle, he says, he could still tear up the track. The last time we saw John Carlos was 1968 on a podium in Mexico City, standing in the grainy evening light rigid as an exclamation point. The black-power salute; an antique of the '60s. He is speaking of something else...