Word: white-collar
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...only more systematically." Whatever the merits of his approach, it is likely to be too expensive for most trials; the profile poll alone would normally cost some $20,000. Schulman and all members of his teams have always donated their time. Recently he was asked to work for a white-collar criminal defendant, but he declined the chance to hire...
...bare and the actors use practically no props. The costume is white-collar Prufrock. With the exception of K. and the fatherfigure, all the other roles are interchangeable. The actors narrate in turn, take on the several voices of conscience and temptation, counsel marriage, art, faith or rebellion. The scenes interrupt and comment on each other. Adaptations from the short stories and novels are intercepted by reflections from the diaries and the famous Letter to his Father. Every moment repeats and plays on the basic pattern of a mind plotting its own victimization...
Fourteen months ago, Derwinski's blue-and white-collar district just southwest of Chicago went 71% for Nixon. Now the President is an embarrassment, a subject to be avoided. Watergate is also little discussed in places like Hickory Hills and Westchester, but the scandal has left its mark; voters are deeply cynical about what is going on in Washington. "People want to believe the worst about their leaders," said Derwinski. "They're looking for evil. They have chips on their shoulders." Indeed, the first question that Derwinski got at a Kiwanis meeting in Hillside was: "Is the energy...
...large extent, Sirica's life is the law. In that work, he tends to favor the prosecution, and he is particularly stern with the white-collar criminal. "I don't think a person should get special treatment just because he's had advantages in life." Above all, Sirica cherishes his independence as a federal judge. "When the founding fathers wrote in the Constitution that judicial terms shall be, during good behavior, for life," he says, "wasn't that a wonderful thing? They gave us freedom to follow our conscience...
...most of the unskilled and semi-skilled job market, and commuting costs to the budget of local working people. Harvard has become by far Cambridge's largest employer, adding to the conflict of interest in local politics. The bulk of new jobs in the city are the MIT-generated white-collar employers of commuting suburbanites (NASA-Tech Square, Badget, A.D. Little). Partial exceptions with some assembly operations, like Polaroid and the hi-fi industries, began similarly as research units and only later generated jobs, and, like Polaroid, have a tendency to locate expansion facilities outside Cambridge. The City Council panders...