Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everyone is thrilled, though, with the results of America's employment miracle. Critics charge that many of the new service jobs pay far less and require fewer skills than the blue-collar occupations that have been dwindling. The result, they say, is that the number of middle-class workers is steadily shrinking. Asserts Harvard Economist Richard Freeman: "For the first time in American economic history, the shift is toward lower-wage industries...
...addition to these one-time issues, the council faces many perennial problems involved with running the city, such as its decaying roads and the difficulties with the increasing gentrification of a formerly blue-collar industrial city...
...squad, including TRINA BURNHAM finished 8-6-1: men's fencing claimed an Eastern individually upon title for the first time in more than 50 Years sophomore ARNE DUNCAN and the Ivy Place of the Year junior JOE CARRABINO sparked the men's basketball team's drive from the collar to second in the league: Coach BILL CLEARY, PETER FOLLOWS (24) and the rest of the men's hockey squad took another Ivy title men's swimming snagged as sixth consecutive Eastern championship: DEB TAFT and the women's hockey team raised to a 12-92 mark PETER DINEEN helped...
...Duluth, a retired 56-year-old fire fighter named Roger Armstrong says, "Ability and intelligence have nothing to do with gender. For an old blue-collar Polack [on his mother's side] like me, that's a hell of an admission." Workers in Chicago bars accepted Jane Byrne as mayor without any sense of trauma or endangered masculinity. Studs Terkel, anthropologist of the working class, explains: "The issue is dead. The guys in the bar have been conditioned by idols like Barbara Stanwyck. Now they're ready for a Gerri Ferraro or a Pat Schroeder...
...Radical Civic Union Party scored a stunning upset victory over the Perónists in elections last October, marking the party's first defeat in a national election since the rise of Juan Perón in 1946. By forging a coalition among Radicals, conservatives and blue-collar workers, Alfonsín captured 52% of the vote, and his party gained control of the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, in Congress. In the Senate, however, control was placed in the hands of seven wavering regional party Senators...