Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just when I noticed it was kind of a nice day out, a skinny kid popped out of a bush by the side of the path. He looked a little like the kids downtown, except he was wearing a tank top, a dog collar, and a funny pointed hat. Hoping he wasn't a guerrilla. I asked him where his coat...
...state campground reads WELCOME TO TENT CITY, U.S.A. Inside, 100 people have set up housekeeping in tents, cars, campers and trucks. Some have been there for as long as eight months, some stay only a few days. Some are from out of state, but most are former blue-collar workers from the Houston area. Says Jana Williams, 27, who has lived there six months with her husband and ten-month-old baby: "Vigilante groups called us trash and ran us out of another camp. We're not. We're just Americans who are out of work. Here...
Their owners used to be poor people parked at the edge of town. Newlyweds, retirees and blue-collar workers with flimsy jobs bought mobile homes because they could not afford anything better. Able to avoid the cost of land, they had only to rent a space and pay for the utilities supplied by operators of the lots that sprang up in American towns during the 1950s. When interest rates and construction costs shot up during the past few years, houses delivered on wheels suddenly gained new popularity. Almost 11 million Americans now live in mobile homes. Astonishingly, the units accounted...
...conflict is sharply limned in Black Life in Corporate America, a book that says integration in the upper levels of the white-collar work force is a sham. The coauthors, George Davis, a novelist, and Glegg Watson, who helps direct educational grants at Xerox Corp., explain that they might have paraphrased an old Jamaican-sect expression as a theme: "How can African man live at IBM without losing himself?" The answer: he cannot. They conclude that even where overt discrimination does not exist, black managers feel they must not only outperform their white competitors to get ahead, but also hide...
Since his installation nearly three months ago, Archbishop Joseph Bernardin has barnstormed his new archdiocese, the largest in the nation. He has called on Polish parishioners in the blue-collar suburb of Cicero, conducted a prayer service in honor of the city's Hispanics, mingled with crowds at an ethnic-heritage Mass and family picnic in Grant Park and appeared in full ecclesiastical garb to bless Catholic charismatics. He has alternately pressed the flesh of the faithful and turned a sympathetic ear to complaints about parochial-school funds and church closings. However distressing the nuclear dilemma...