Word: collars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overwhelmingly female work force had bonded with her. They listened wide-eyed as the only woman to head a FORTUNE 500 industrial company told them she would save jobs if they agreed to cut costs and boost output. Marvels Debbie Perry, who has spent the past 19 years stitching collar stays at America's oldest shirtmaker: "Miss Linda said she cared about the people who work here, and we believed...
...Davis' high-school classmates dropped out, but none had ever applied to an Ivy League school either. Of his graduating class of 72, about a quarter went on to college, mainly the University of Michigan or Michigan State University. Most graduates return to Bronson to work in blue-collar or clerical, service-sector occupations...
...question that if you come from a blue-collar or less affluent background, you face a more difficult transition here, and also in your background and growing up you had access to far fewer resources," acknowledges William R. Fitzsimmons '67, dean of admissions and financial aid. "There's no question that the deck is stacked out there in the real world against those who come from blue-collar backgrounds. That can be seen very directly in the steep correlations between SAT scores and socioeconomic backgrounds...
...EEOC, the total cost to Mitsubishi in compensatory and punitive damages could theoretically exceed $150 million. The company has also been hit with a class action on behalf of 29 women, which portrays the Mitsubishi plant as a misogynous mix of sexist Japanese management practice and American blue-collar, bully-boy machismo...
While Wynn and Bennett were Disneyfying the Strip with automated pirate shows and indoor theme parks, he catered to blue-collar gamblers at Bob Stupak's Vegas World, using vacation packages to fill the tacky rooms and move the garbage buffet. (In 1991 he was fined $125,000 for misleading advertising.) But now Stupak is playing with the big boys. He wants to stay at the table and to be seen betting all his chips. "I know one thing," he says. "It's better for people to know you than not to know you. To be in Las Vegas...