Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loan from the teachers' credit union. Last year his company did $100 million in sales, with 152 franchises worldwide. Jim Whitman, the executive vice president in charge of recruiting franchisers, finds his best clients are refugees of the old order: the middle-aged managers and blue-collar workers laid off by corporations obsessed with efficiency. He scoops them up (as long as they "love pets and like people--in that order") and turns them into managers of pet and pet-product stores. He's convinced that his business is perfectly timed. "People are getting back to basics, doing something real...
Traditionally, the CCA has included many intellectuals and middle-class social progressives, while the Independents have drawn support from the city's blue-collar and immigrant families...
...Seeing my teammates who have had broken ankles, collar bones and arms back out on the pitch as soon as they are healed is inspiring," said Magill...
...Italian immigrants and the youngest of seven children, Malone was raised in Waltham, Mass., a blue collar suburb of Boston...
...Attorney General is under fire for protecting the White House; the entire top rank of the Justice Department has been hollowed out by transfers and resignations; White House counsels come and go like munchkins. At the same time, the enemy is smarter and more slippery. New technology makes white-collar crime easier to commit and harder to prosecute. Organized crime is a much more complicated threat than in the days when the FBI battled Al Capone or even Gotti; while agents could penetrate the Italian Mob and recruit informants, it is far more difficult to infiltrate the new Vietnamese, Russian...