Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recession are too disillusioned or apathetic to vote, as has often been the case, or if they stay home because they believe the Democrats are offering no alternatives, the Republicans will do well. But many strategists were saying last week that they sense a Republican Waterloo, with blue-collar workers joining the jobless and the worried in returning to the Democratic fold. "The fear factor is still there," says Representative Tony Coelho of California, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "It's there with those who fear their job is next." Says Nancy Sinnott of the National Republican...
...around for years. The predecessors of the picture phones used in teleconferencing were first seen at the New York World's Fair in 1964. But the voice mailboxes are based on new developments in computers. And all the new phones are part of the drive to increase white-collar productivity...
...year ago in Anaheim, Calif. She borrowed the name from the title of a 1978 Neil Simon movie in which a bumbling Peter Falk spoofs Bogart. For $15 an hour, Short's 22 male and female investigators will shadow a wayward wife, track down a runaway teen or collar an embezzler. The agency has already had nearly 1,000 clients. When a Los Angeles retailer hired her firm to crack an internal theft ring, one of the Cheap Detectives posed as a store employee and gathered evidence that led to 35 arrests...
...completely believable rituals ever described in women's literature, the three chums ingest large quantities of marijuana, cocaine, acid and opium (Faye also spends a good deal of time sprinkling nutmeg into glasses of straight scotch because it's chic), dress in Brearley uniforms (short pleated tunic over granny collar shirt, gold studs optional) and present each other with detailed reports of their sexual activities since the last meeting...
...disturbing. On Friday the Labor Department said the unemployment rate last month climbed from 9.8% to 10.1%, meaning that 11.3 million Americans are unable to find work. For the first time since 1940, the percentage of U.S. unemployed reached double digits. Black unemployment crept above 20%, and for blue-collar workers the rate jumped from 14.2% to 15.6%. Among construction workers, unemployment rose to 22.6%. Friday was even given a nickname in advance: "Double-D-Day." Said Richard Murray, a University of Houston political scientist: "This has been the most anticipated number in American politics. I've never seen...