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...jobs that will be created by the CRA's proposal for the Triangle are largely white-collar, professional, and technical, but Rowland says his agency will seek blue-collar industries for the Quadrangle, "if at all possible...
...city residents go off to work on farms for six months to three years or more. During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a party member's willingness to "integrate" himself with the masses by doing manual labor became a test of his ideological purity. Professors, government bureaucrats and white-collar workers all spent time, often punitive, in what came to be called "May Seventh schools," combination collective farms and political-indoctrination workshops that took their name from Mao's letter of May 7, 1966 to Lin Piao, then Minister of Defense. In the letter, Mao declared that "every...
With a zeal that recalls some of the excesses of the Red Guards of China's Cultural Revolution, student committees have fired ideologically errant professors, and white-collar workers have searched their bosses' desks for pornography. The walls of buildings all over Tripoli sport huge cartoons, which serve as the popular primers of the revolution. One depicts two citizens opening up the cranium of a sleeping bureaucrat and complaining: "The revolution has not yet entered into his head...
Sister Loretta Monahan, another spokesman for Hard Times, said after the meeting that the CRA plan represented a gradual "piecemeal" takeover of Kendall Square by business and white-collar interests. "If we didn't organize and get the people here, the City Council would have passed the resolution," she said. "We don't trust them...
...only place the Harvard reputation counts is in white-collar 9 to 5 jobs--not too many people are interested in them any more--and most people don't want to make that kind of commitment when they graduate," Ginn said...