Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...symbolic of a sweeping transformation that is creating a New Economy. It is a two-tiered economy marked by swift change and stark contrasts. While traditional smokestack industries are reeling from foreign competition, surging high-technology companies are leading the world in innovation. Though hundreds of thousands of blue-collar assembly-line workers have lost their livelihoods, white-collar engineers have had their pick of high-paying jobs. Last year 25,346 businesses went bankrupt, the most since the Great Depression, but 566,942 new companies opened their doors. Says Delaware Governor Pierre du Pont IV: "The transformation...
Maybe yes, maybe no; Reagan was still not saying. Nonetheless, last week's trip highlighted the political challenge Reagan would face in 1984, if and when he declares himself: to shore up support among right-wing Republican supporters while reaching out to swing such groups as Hispanics, blue-collar workers and Roman Catholics...
...their versatility. For Mary Tyler Moore, 45, all it took was a request for her to stretch those famous legs and hit the boards in a dance number-calling up talents that kept her in tooth polish long before the Mary Tyler Moore Show. And so, hat cocked and collar up, Moore will be joining a smart blue chorus line of New York's Finest later this month for a stage show to benefit Jacques d'Amboise's National Dance Institute. A veteran principal dancer of the New York City Ballet, D'Amboise, 48, has long...
...tough, tensile quality about her-not the invulnerability of an enchanted child, but the eerie confidence of the very strong. Polanski, in Paris, talked of her "great acting talent and her tremendous will," and then added that "as we Poles say, 'She does not pour vodka behind her collar.' " This, he explained, means not that she swills alcohol, but that she throws herself fearlessly at life...
...selling customized products, firms need skilled work forces able to adapt rapidly to changing customer needs. Instead of sharpening workers' skills, Reich says, many big companies have laid off employees in the U.S. and set up assembly lines overseas. Rather than push hard for retraining, most blue-collar unions have clung to rigid job classifications and inefficient work rules...