Word: white-collar
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...background. Without any formal standards to guide them, judges fell back on their instincts, experience or prejudices. In practice what has happened, in case after case, is that the poor got longer sentences than the well-to-do, nonwhites longer than whites, and the street thief who steals a few dollars longer than the white-collar thief who steals thousands...
...plant layout, assembly-line speed and other production details. In addition, Gyllenhammar has put two workers on Volvo's twelve-man board of directors and replaced most individual offices in the company's Göteborg headquarters with open work areas to encourage contact among executives and white-collar employees...
...daily since then. His campaingn is based largely on his contention that McCann has not gone out to meet the people of the district. As a senator, Hogan would try to provide the same kinds of services to constituents that Wylie tends to categorize people as blue-collar and white-collar without treating them as individuals...
These formidable facts do not terrify either McGovern or the unorthodox, relatively inexperienced but toughly pragmatic men guiding his campaign. They claim that the conventional political wisdom about the self-interest of various voting blocs, whether labor, blacks, Jews, affluent suburbanites or white-collar professionals is no longer true, and that the blocs are merging into broader concerns that cut across the usual lines, and that regional affiliations are largely losing their meaning. There is a restless, undefinable yearning for change, they say, and it is producing what McGovern termed in his acceptance speech a political ferment comparable...
...Motor Lodge have in common? They are all doing their jobs dressed in specially designed "career apparel" or "corporate clothing." These are the latest euphemisms for work uniforms that once were confined to the blue-collar set, and are now the vogue in a growing number of white-collar jobs, especially those held by women...