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...first time since 1980, General Motors ordered deep cuts in the dividends it pays to stockholders -- from 75 cents to 40 cents a share. GM also said it will curtail executive bonuses this year and phase out 15,000 white-collar jobs by 1993. The dividend cut alone will save $840 million a year...
...entry-level perception is not unfounded, and many drivers use the job as a stepping stone, Cavellini explains, adding that in times of fiscal stability, driving a cab is much like other blue-collar occupations...
...unlike some other blue collar jobs, driving taxis has a special appeal. According to Cavellini, most cabbies have something of the gambler in them, and enjoy the freedom and uncertainty inherent in their jobs. "You're outside, you're moving around, you get to feel the pulse of the city," he says...
...factories, construction sites and shipyards across the U.S., girly pinups -- often so anatomically explicit they would make Betty Grable blush -- are the workingman's constant companion. Although women hold 8.6% of skilled blue- collar jobs, their presence has done little to diminish the existence of these graphic images. For their part, courts have been reluctant to rule that pornographic pictures constitute a form of sexual harassment in the workplace, mainly because such photos are ubiquitous...
...poorest neighborhoods, declared, "If George Bush wants to set deadlines, he could set deadlines on unemployment, apartheid, homelessness. He has been hell-bound for months on war. I have never heard a President talk so much war talk in my lifetime." During Vietnam, American labor unions and blue-collar workers tended to support the war. This time, the presidents of * nine major unions argued for a peaceful solution...