Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particular threat to 40,000 former white-collar employees of the now outlawed Solidarity organization, such as printers, journalists and clerical staff, many of whom are still without jobs. It also threatens blue-collar workers like those at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, about 50 of whom were fired after an attempted strike last month. Many of these workers have also received "wolf tickets," or bad-conduct reports, making it hard for them to get new jobs...
Meanwhile South House wrapped up the other title Tuesday putting away previously unbeaten Eliot. 7-0. A 40-yard pass from Walter Paulsen to Tommy Kardish gave Soho the only points it needed in House football's most brutal game this year. Paulsen suffered a broken collar bone, while the Eliot team suffered one broken leg two broken ankles two concussions and one broken...
...quit. The resignation made him even more of a white-collar folk legend, the free-spirited rebel who "fired GM," which suited De Lorean fine. "That was some salary to give up," he said in 1980, "but I have never worried about money. I do things for themselves." Richard Gerstenberg, then chairman of GM, arranged for De Lorean to take over as president of the National Alliance of Business, an organization of socially conscious executives. Among other good works, the group encouraged employment of ex-convicts...
Neither foresight nor omnipresence in white-collar enclaves ensured Xerox of success with products other than copiers. Its Star work station, one of the first office-of-the-future products designed for managers not comfortable with computers, has had disappointing sales since its introduction last year. Now it is almost too late. Says an analyst: "When it comes to automated offices, they're not good enough relative to those they're up against-IBM, AT&T and Kodak. They're not strong as a team...
Each Mills is delineated in chapters and episodes; all converge in the last Mills as collective blue-collar folklore: "A witness, in a dynasty of witnesses, one more chump who crewed history, whose destiny it was to hang out with the field hands, just there, you see, in range and hard by, but a little out of focus in the group photographs, rounded up when the marauders came, feeding the flames, one more wisp of smoke at the Inquisitions, doing all the obligatory forced marches, boat folks from the word...