Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another problem with the increasing rents in Cambridge is the so called "gentrification" of the city; its transition from an area dominated by blue-collar families to a "bedroom community" of upper-middle class communters...
...Cambridge franchise, and only if it presents the best proposal, should it build a municipally-owned cable system. Cable TV is one of the fastest-growing entertainment industries nationally. Cambridge, while not ideal because of construction considerations, offers a cable operator an attractive market with plenty of white-collar households and average incomes across the city above...
...earmark $15 million for scholarships and college and university endowments. As a result of this aid, more than 100,000 women and minorities, together with their families, will be eligible to attend classes at 28 U.S. institutions. GM will spend an additional $8.9 million to train 1,250 white-collar workers for better-paying and more responsible jobs within the company...
...last year, women accounted for about 17% of the car manufacturer's nearly 450,000 U.S. employees; minorities constituted some 17.5%. Many of the new gains are expected to come in white-collar positions. Only some 6.5% of GM's managers are women, for example, while minorities make up 8.9%. Said one company official: "I would suspect we're going to see more emphasis on moving women and minorities up through the ranks of the organization...
...from the out-of-sight rich living off capital in grand seclusion, to the destitute, who are also well hidden. In between are various levels of uppers, middles and "proles," Shaw's and Orwell's abbreviation of proletariat, now Fussell's gleefully derogatory term for blue-collar workers...