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...Rowing has been able to maintain its high level of amenities by supporting an endowment which sets it "in a class by itself," Bertagna says. He would not comment on why the endowment, which nears $1 million, is so large but adds that "crew is not a blue-collar sport." While that $1 million endowment generates about $30,000 every year for the rowers, Bancroft says, the Friends annually raise another $30,000 or so in contributions...
Kemp is far scrappier and more visceral in his appeal. His punchy, populist style is particularly effective with Main Street and back-street types, both the blue-collar conservatives and the "new-collar" workers in service and clerical jobs. They have little allegiance to Big Business and the country- club set, like Kemp's enthusiasm for what he calls the "opportunity society," and identify with his antiestablishment attitudes and New Right values, such as opposing abortion. One of the original apostles of supply-side tax cuts, Kemp stresses economic growth over budget balancing and touts his vision of a flat...
...huge Hanover Room of downtown Atlanta's Hyatt Regency Hotel late last week, the air was filled with hubbub--and a sense of desperation. A total of 31 public and private corporations had set up interviewing tables to try to fill some 2,000 white-collar jobs, ranging from electrical engineer to word processor to bank teller, in the city's central business district. Some of the vacancies had gone unfilled for six months or more...
...steady boom in manufacturing leads to, and in fact requires, an equally steady decline in blue-collar jobs...
Instead, the U.S. has shed blue-collar jobs -- 5 million since 1975 -- as it experienced an accelerated substitution of knowledge and capital for manual labor. Without such a substitution, Drucker argues, no modern nation can hope to remain competitive. Says he: "The attempt to preserve . . . blue-collar jobs is actually a prescription for unemployment...