Word: collars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cronyism in office. Leaks and lie-detector tests. Softness on white collar crime. The Justice Department during Watergate? Edwin Meese at his worst? No, it's the list of charges against Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, and the reason he has become the Bush Administration's first high-level personnel problem...
...blue-collar right-winger who says the working class opposes radical reform but demands a higher standard of living...
...lyrics cleverly depict the life of blue-collar America in the age of Reagan: "Home Shopping Club's got us by the eyes/Scrambling to the phone ordering porcelain flies/Talk to the women talk to the wives/Everybody's buying important things for their lives." Hornsby even mentions his presidential target by name: "Let it ring, George," he belts...
...were overdue when the Government took over -- the indictment strikes some critics as tardy and tame. The Justice Department contends that it has been moving as quickly as possible, although last year it left $26 million unspent out of a fraud-fighting budget of $75 million. "These complicated white-collar-crime cases take time to develop," says Attorney General Dick Thornburgh. In north Texas alone, the Government is investigating more than 500 individuals affiliated with 38 different...
...country's nascent democratic forces. He won that position by taking on the ruling establishment before it was the fashionable thing to do, denouncing corruption and privilege while demanding the return of political power to the people. Along the way, Yeltsin turned himself into a genuine blue-collar hero...