Word: collars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make the country's bloated public sector more efficient, presumably by trimming its size through layoffs or attrition. But Menem, a Peronist whose political base is Argentina's powerful labor movement, has not had the stomach to set the stage for a confrontation with the country's blue-collar workers by carrying out those plans...
...editorial, Berger attributes to SONG the belief that it is blue-collar "anti-intellectuals" like an unabashedly bigoted Steve Olson who "are stunting the improvement of American education...
...House and the Senate, the Harvard name does not carry much weight. Many lawmakers come from blue-collar backgrounds and tend to distrust the University. Most efforts by Harvard to exert pressure on the state would be ineffective, if not counterproductive, Barrett says...
WHERE is this battlefield? It's in the mind of all Americans. Take Steve Olson, for example. Olson is a self-proclaimed spokesman for the blue-collar work force of America. Writing in a Newsweek commentary, he railed against the Nerds--the same ones he used to beat up in grade school--who are now running the factory where he works, the newspaper he reads and the rest of his country...
Olson doesn't hide his blue-collar prejudices against academics and others. "At least our bigotry is open and honest and worn out front like a tattoo," he proclaims...