Word: collaring
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After he was elected New Mexico's attorney general in 1974, Anaya transformed the office from a sleepy political backwater into one of the most visible and independent positions in the state by crusading against white-collar crime and championing consumer and environmental issues. In 1982 he was elected Governor by a margin of 25,000 votes out of 406,000 cast, considered a landslide in New Mexico. Under state law, however, Anaya cannot succeed himself, a fact that has made him work feverishly to put his populist stamp on state government and consolidate power in the Governor...
...format, Heart Like a Wheel occupies the ragged terrain somewhere between old B movies and new TV movies. A blue-collar inspirational, it follows Muldowney from her teen-age nights on New Jersey back roads in the 1950s to her unprecedented third National Hot Rod Association world championship title last year. As with the Mercury space program, drag racing is largely an achievement of the designers and mechanics; the driver is a high-risk passenger who needs guts as much as skill to command a vehicle packing 2,500 h.p. and moving at 250 m.p.h. with a force...
...system, farmers are free to leave the land and benefit from the local government's retirement and welfare system. Rotner, who has done extensive analyses of the villa's finances, says the workers by law receive wages on par with other Italian farmers, which in some cases exceed blue-collar wages in Italy...
...part of Smokestack America is sicker than the steel industry, which lost $3.2 billion last year. Since the late 1970s, the number of blue-collar workers in the industry has plunged from 340,000 to 173,000. Formidable foreign competitors, led by the Japanese, have captured nearly 20% of the U.S. market. Doubts are rising as never before about America's ability to remain a major steelmaking power...
Clearly something is wrong. Wilson deliberately ignores the so-called "white collar crimes," claiming in the introduction to Crime and Public Policy that "common predatory street crime is of greater importance to the general public." Having stacked the deck to exclude the rich--whose criminality is statistically several orders of magnitude higher than that of street criminals--Wilson calls for a holy war against criminals, who by his definition must be poor...