Word: collars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EVEN though more than 80 percent of Hungarian women work, they tend to hold inferior jobs and receive lower wages than men. In blue-collar fields women are discouraged from learning how to handle complex technical machinery; they are considered too fragile, both physically and mentally, to hold these taxing positions...
...result, women compose more than 70 percent of unskilled labor, thus being the group lowest paid and, with the new economic reforms, the first laid off. In white-collar fields women are encouraged to pursue careers in education and medicine, both poorly paid professions. Even though women constitute a large majority in these fields, top jobs such as university professors and medical specialists are reserved...
...those who have actually lost their jobs -- an estimated 267,000 in November -- the holidays are especially painful. This recession began in the service sector, rather than in manufacturing, and so has taken a swipe at the security of white-collar and blue-collar workers alike. "It's a terrible time of year to be sending cards to friends across the country," says Robert Bach, who moved to California from Omaha only 18 months ago and has already lost two jobs because of the slumping economy. He does feasibility studies for new buildings -- of which there are not too many...
Kickin' A's The Cincinnati Reds owned first place in their National League division from opening day, but nearly everyone expected they'd lose the World Series to Oakland's high-priced powerhouse club. Then the Reds displayed their blue-collar grit by beating the "better" team in four straight games, pulling off baseball's biggest upset since the Miracle Mets...
...inside the White House that the President's image would suffer. "This is a powder keg," said an official privately. "Somebody is going to read racism into every word you say on this subject. You don't want to do this." While the racial card appeals to some blue-collar and rural whites, it obviously offends many blacks. It also conflicts with the two-year effort by Bush and the departing G.O.P. chairman, Lee Atwater, to woo black voters. Further, the moderate faction agrees with political scientist Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia, who says that "some upscale white...