Word: collars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although optimistic about the city's future, Thompson says Cambridge has changed remarkably since the begining of his political career, when it was better defined by communities of solid blue-collar row houses than by the coffee parlors proliferating in Central Square...
...Alvin's style is not to be threatening of intimidating but conciliatory," Koocher says. "White, blue-collar Cambridge voters have always been comfortable with Alvin, as opposed to your traditional blue-collar voters who weren't comfortable with Saundra Graham. Alvin's political roots are more traditional...
...bill, there's an interesting question: Grandstanding for whom? A TIME/CNN poll in January reported that 55% of those asked would increase government spending on the environment, 16% would decrease it and 27% would keep spending the same. Other polls show strong environmental support among suburban Republicans and blue-collar white males, who are furious that business is pushing environmental cuts...
...increase the nation's economic competitiveness. Thomas Jefferson said a democracy cannot remain a democracy if its voting citizens aren't educated. Thus, 200 years ago public schooling was initiated. Fifty years ago, to survive economically, all someone needed was a high school education. But that was when blue collar, manufacturing jobs were prevalent...
...mere roguishness. If Jarred had more emotional depth throughout, his gradual alienation and his photographic rape of Flee would have been all the more terrifying. This interpretation can be glimpsed only at times, and it is undermined by the decision to give Jarred a visually distracting spiked dog-collar, suggesting a punk persona that is not (and should not be) reflected by the character himself...