Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though steel has been plagued over the years by everything from strong foreign competition to outmoded mills and plants, the industry's biggest headache remains exorbitant wages, which now average $23.40 per hr., including benefits. That makes unionized steelworkers the most highly paid blue-collar laborers in American industry...
...twelve more House seats that year, riding a wave of discontent symbolized by the Proposition 13 tax revolt in California. The G.O.P. hoped that the 1980 Reagan victory, which brought them twelve more Senators and 33 Congressmen, signified a new conservative electoral coalition made up of traditional Republicans, blue-collar workers and those concerned with social issues such as abortion and school prayer...
...failure of Reagan's program to avoid the shoals of a treacherous recession caused people to vote their pocketbooks and restored, at least temporarily, the traditional Democratic coalition. Blue-collar workers in particular returned to the fold with a vengeance. Says Tony Pinello, a local union president in New Jersey: "A lot of our members, maybe as many as 50%, were swingers in 1980 and voted Reagan. They came back because of unemployment, unemployment and unemployment...
...nonetheless scored some big victories. Marcy Kaptur astonished her own party by winning almost 59% of the vote in a Toledo district that had voted 56% for Republican Ed Weber only two years ago. One reason: the Toledo AFL-CIO hired some of the district's jobless blue-collar workers to make 30,000 phone calls on her behalf. South Dakota lost one of its two House seats to redistricting, forcing Incumbents Clint Roberts, a Republican who represented the conservative, ranching western part of the state, and Thomas Daschle, a Democrat who represented the more liberal, farming eastern side...
...cunning craftsmen of catalogue sell have essentially captured markets and imaginations by concentrating on what used to be called good goods. To be sure, Sportpages will sell you a $7,000 royal red golf cart with a Rolls-Roycean grille. But the same catalogue also offers a personalized pet collar for $15. Along with high fashion Bloomingdale well signed $12.50 watches and $4.50 cotton placemats. For a mere $40, Tiffany offers a handsome terra cotta bowl for working cooks. Next to its $1,095 one-third scale gas-powered Corvette, the best buy at Hammacher Schlemmer just might...