Word: collars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...modernist who didn't like the rubric, so too was he a prototypical modern figure in all the meretricious pop senses. He was a child of a dysfunctional family. He wore long hair and dressed expensively and eccentrically for effect: broad-brimmed hat, cape, velvet suit with lace collar and cuffs, immense bows, tassled cummerbunds, high heels. He was not just an adulterer but a free-love ideologue. He was a media celebrity; trains and theater curtains were held for him. And he marketed his fame: during the Depression he started charging devotees to come and work...
...agreement with the other Ivies to keep it that way. Throwing our hat into the bidding war for minority students would not only break that agreement but would create some ethically questionable inequities in Harvard's admissions and financial aid process. What would Harvard say to a blue-collar white kid from Kentucky who received a regular aid package after it awarded a huge race-based deal to a Black kid from Exeter...
...driven by the computer chip, which some analysts say has caused more industrial dislocation than any other advance in the history of capitalism. In the early 1980s it arrived in manufacturing in the form of robots and computerized machine tools; in the 1990s it is replacing back-room white-collar clerical workers in service industries by the score. Like the historic shift from agriculture to heavy industry in the 19th century, the advent of a new technology ought to be creating a whole new class of jobs to replace the ones lost. That's not happening: the transition has left...
...latest recession has hit white-collar workers particularly hard, both in terms of layoffs and slippage in their real wages. "These people can't believe what is happening to them," says Illinois opinion pollster Mike McKeon. "They decided they didn't want to work in factories, so they learned how to use computers. They were rewarded with service-sector jobs in the 1980s, but now they're out on the street and no one wants them." Open season has been declared on corporate bureaucrats. "The middle manager has gone out of vogue in corporate America," says Lacey. "Indeed, the word...
...described how he and Irene, in an attempt to extort $18 million from Exxon, ambushed Reso from a van parked in front of his Morris Township home. When Reso stopped to pick up his newspaper at the end of his driveway, "I yelled and grabbed him by the collar," Seale told the judge. "I pulled him into the van, and when he got into the van he went to turn and the gun went off." For four days, the couple held the badly wounded Reso without food and water in a locked wooden box in a self-storage locker they...