Word: white-collar
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...American worker-blue-collar and white-collar alike-bored with his job and alienated? So it is often said, most recently by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which reported that only 25% of the workers it polled were satisfied and would choose the same kind of job again...
...gone for riot-control gear and other unproductive frills. Far more effective has been the Administration's drive against organized crime. This is expected to continue, as is a new emphasis on antitrust prosecutions, including jail terms for corporate price fixers, and new attention to such white-collar criminals as stock manipulators, tax dodgers and perpetrators of consumer frauds...
Angry Wolves. One of the gut issues continues to be white-collar jobs for project residents. Dr. Jack Geiger, the center's creator, points out that pumping large amounts of cash-the current budget is $1.4 million-into a desperately poor area is risky. "It's like throwing a pound of meat to 50 angry wolves," he says. "They'll kill each other to get a bite." But racial pride and sensitivity about the condescending attitudes of some white professionals are also crucial factors. Gloria Nelms, a black former psychiatric counselor at Columbia Point who is among...
Barzel hopes to enlarge C.D.U.'s traditional bloc of businessmen, white-collar workers, farmers, women and older voters by suggesting that West Germany, between radicalism and Ostpolitik, is edging much too close to socialism. Franz Josef Strauss, a florid speechmaker and political infighter, already warns darkly against what he calls Brandt's "social Communist regime...
...rates have also risen in every other category as well since the last time Richard Nixon ran for President. (The overall rate in the late summer of 1968 was 3.5%.) Some of the biggest increases in the past four years have occurred among whites (from 3.2% to 5.1%), white-collar workers (2% to 3.5%), blue-collar workers (4.2% to 6.5%) and heads of households...