Word: white-collar
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...Solution: effective immediately, the Bulgarian government ordered all able-bodied men under 40 who have held nonprofessional office jobs for less than ten years to transfer to harder factory work; their jobs will be filled by women. Failure to cooperate with this grand shift will mean dismissal from the white-collar position for the worker and a fine of $170 per person for the employer...
...bones in a bowl. Then, just before dawn one day last week, the nightmare that Angelenos have well learned to dread happened again. The brush in the hills, ignited by power lines torn to the ground by whistling winds, exploded into flame. With incredible speed, fire raced through the white-collar suburbs of Los Angeles-into Glendale and Burbank, Eagle Rock, and Verdugo City and Pasadena...
...towns are to serve as coun-termagnets to London, to draw businesses from the capital, as well as white-collar workers tired of ever-lengthening commuter travel between London and its "dormer" suburbs. The new communities are to be self-contained, with living, working and playing space close together and hence little need for commuting...
...youth, an Italian boy entering a white-collar job, is no fragile Dedalus embarking upon a tragic bildungsroman; neither is he a dashing hero in a setting devoid of heroism. Domenico's passage into adulthood takes place without ceremony or bravado. He passes quietly, but not painlessly, self-consciously, but never cutely, into a world of hopeless vacuity. Throughout the movie Olmi shows him what he may become--a dulled commuter from lower middle-class suburbs, a paunchy clerk gazing through shop windows, an embittered office-worker yearning for a piddling promotion...
...against nowadays: working "in association with" another firm of building planners on the job. As in the case of the Gropius-Belluschi Pan Am Building in Manhattan, the "associates" will be the firm of Emery Roth & Sons, whose glassy budget ziggurats have transformed much of the city into a white-collar Babylon. Whether Yama can maintain his usual no-detail-is-too-small control over the project's construction is a question that bothers many of his fellow architects. Says one: "I don't think he can. It's a tragic mistake...