Word: collars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...troops pass by Bosnians freezing in the mountains and air-drop relief food into an icy river. Some UN officers struggle with the cruelty of this position, but most are unable or unwilling to resist policy defined by distant leaders. Bosnian military leaders, many former intellectuals or white-collar workers, speak with guarded firmness about the fighting, appearing at worst as misplaced men, but mostly seeming deeply and quietly courageous...
...hotel on Friday. Leeson's risky dealings were detected last week when he ran out of money and asked the home office for more, according to a British government source. TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand says Leeson is the oldest of four siblings born to a blue-collar family in a London suburb, an average student who did not attend college and began his career as a bank clerk.Post to Business "Baring Bros. Collapse...
...mailman from the blue-collar town of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, Kasich, in an act of college rebellion upon reaching Ohio State University, rejected his Democratic roots in favor of the populist, antibureaucratic doctrine. But whatever complaints he may have about government, he nonetheless has spent his entire career on the public payroll. (``I'm going to end up in the private sector,'' he vows. ``At some point, I'm out of this.'') His first job after graduating from college in 1974 was as an aide in the state senate, and within four years he had won a seat there...
GESO's members include a majority of the roughly 1100 humanities and social science graduate students. GESO has formed an alliance with Yale's two official unions, Local 34--secretaries and other white collar workers--and Local 35--blue collar employees...
...university underestimated them becausethey were women, they were white collar," Weinbaumsaid. "[The university] forced them out on strike,and they lasted 10 weeks...