Word: collars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pocketing cash, jiggering books, stealing merchandise, and a score of other similar practices, employees this year will steal more than $1 billion-more than twice the amount stolen by all the nation's professional thieves. This is the estimate of Norman Jaspan in The Thief in the White Collar (Lippincott; $4.95), an analysis of corporate stealing. Jaspan, 43, who is president of his own management consulting firm, speaks from experience. His clients include 35% of all major retail outlets in the U.S., plus many airlines and manufacturing firms. In the past ten years, while working to improve operating efficiency...
Jaspan's basic thesis is that white collar crime is largely caused by corporate neglect of employees' needs and morale and by poor management in general. The growing decentralization of U.S. business, he argues, has left too many top executives concerned only with profit-and-loss figures to the detriment of employee relations. Jaspan acknowledges that many thefts are hard to eliminate because of employees' money difficulties or personality problems (e.g., the unattractive sales clerk who stole for a trip to Bermuda to find romance). But he also points to the need for management to pay higher...
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...friend handed her. A group of Australian hockey players squeezed in. "We'll be watching you in the next few days," promised Pat. The trainer of the Russian skating team swiveled into position before the Nixons, fastened a silver tie clip to the Vice President's collar. "Sputnik," he said, pointing to the engraving on the clasp. "We're so happy to see you," said Pat. "I have a memento for you." And she handed him a green ballpoint...
...years, reversing a 20-year trend toward union expansion, reported the Department of Labor last week. The figures: in 1956, U.S. labor unions had 17,500,000 members, v. 17 million in 1958. The reason: the unions' failure to organize the growing force of white-collar workers...