Word: white-collar
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...Confederate" parade moved up the mall, hundreds of white-collar workers crowded the capitol windows. For a moment they watched silently. Then, as the marchers began chanting. "Go home, niggers," a huge shout of approval roared from the building...
...best proof that we are still living in the world of the past," says one Geneva businessman ruefully. The Gazette de Lausanne pointed out that the foreigners are in Switzerland in large part because the Swiss want somebody else to do the "servile or dirty work, and prefer white-collar and clean-hand jobs," and, if the foreigners are expelled, the Swiss will be the first to suffer. Syndicalisme blasted the ousters as "Helvetic Goldwaterism...
...journalists can polish off their stories in the mornings, devoting afternoons and evenings to Parliament. One of the busiest M.P.s is Tory Backbencher Sir Cyril Black, who at last count was chairman of some 40 companies and director of a dozen more. But the increasing number of teachers, white-collar employees and workers among M.P.s have a much harder time dividing their careers this way. Besides, with the growing amount of complex homework to be done, Parliament is becoming more and more of a round-the-clock...
...command to give everyone more responsibilities, created a president's council in which he and his lieutenants can make decisions without indulging in the long delays and lengthy memos that once characterized Westinghouse. He slashed costs by more than $20 million by getting rid of 3,825 white-collar employees, shaved inventories by $8,000,000 with a telecomputer center outside Westinghouse's Pittsburgh headquarters that flashes orders to far-flung warehouses and reminds them to restock...
...reached 15%, into a job market that is already crowded. Age is also a problem in the unions, where labor leaders have grown old, tired and divided, generally failing to groom young men to take their places. Unimaginative union leadership has failed to organize the growing ranks of white-collar workers, and union membership-now on the rise after a long decline-stands at about 22.2% of the labor force...