Word: collars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even when Republicans do manage to hit their white-collar allies, they can't help whacking a more vulnerable constituency. The House Ways and Means Committee did approve last week a bill designed by its chairman, Bill Archer, that eliminates some tax breaks for business. But as part of the same package it also proposes to squeeze the earned-income tax credit by $23 billion over seven years. An even bigger cut--$32 billion--is proposed by the Senate Finance Committee...
...when women entered the more prestigious service academies in the mid-'70s, there was an effort made to ease their way. The first classes were substantial (119 women started at West Point in 1976), and standards were quietly made equivalent without being the same (hair could be cut to collar length, 18 push-ups in two minutes instead of some 40). Female officers now routinely graduate with distinction. In 1995, Rebecca Marier beat out 988 fellow cadets to graduate first at West Point...
...sending partial payments as a stalling tactic. To avoid the high cost of day care-an expense our combined earnings couldn't begin to cover-we work opposite shifts. Our parents have even taken over our car payments. We often marvel at the fact that two well-educated white-collar workers like ourselves are worse off financially than most of our less-schooled, blue-collar neighbors. ANA M. WAGNER-HOFFMAN Germantown, Maryland Via America Online...
...past five months, Jerome Ash has spent every weekday at Training Inc. in hopes of breaking into what used to be known as the pink-collar ghetto of receptionists, typists and filing clerks. He spends game nights at Indianapolis' Market Square Arena, selling frozen drinks on a 15% commission. On his first night, during a hockey game, he made...
...discuss comic actresses is to invoke some sacred names from Hollywood's golden age. Ryan, who as a kid in Fairfield, Connecticut, loved to watch the classic comedies, has acute ad-lib analyses of the pantheon residents. On Carole Lombard: "Elegant, but a little blue collar. She's not afraid to be funny at her own expense." Rosalind Russell: "A real quick draw, the fastest of them all, and extremely comfortable with winning." Audrey Hepburn: "In a class by herself. She was mysterious, but totally vulnerable and accessible. There was a light in her eye. And she loved being...