Word: white-collar
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...long battle of appeals was generally viewed as an unprecedented testing of the patience of justice, there was little emotional reaction. Abroad, he was still the symbol of the crusade against capital punishment. In Lisbon, demonstrators hurled rocks, broke windows in the U.S. embassy. Elsewhere in the city, white-collar workers donned black ties of protest. In Montevideo, Uruguay, a crowd of 100 students gathered outside the U.S. embassy shouting "Murderers," "Assassins," and shaking fists at embassy aides who looked out windows. In Pretoria, South Africa, university students marched to the U.S. embassy, raised a banner reading "American Justice...
...happened. The U.S. intellectual has lost his sympathy for unions because today's rich and powerful unions have lost sympathy for the underdog. The real people in economic need today are not the union members, says Odiorne, but the "farm laborer, the service employee, the lower level of white-collar worker, the retired annuitant." His conclusion: without a "reconstituted philosophy of unionism" that reaches out to include these people, the "alienation of the' intellectuals will continue. Within the decade we may well expect that many of these will turn on unionism and attack the very body they once...
...years, reversing a 20-year trend toward union expansion, reported the Department of Labor last week. The figures: in 1956, U.S. labor unions had 17,500,000 members, v. 17 million in 1958. The reason: the unions' failure to organize the growing force of white-collar workers...
...term demand, they loaded on new plants and machines, more nonproductive salaried engineers and managers, all heavy overhead items of fixed cost. When recession came, the businessmen were stuck; they could lay off hourly workers, but they still had to pay their fixed costs for plants and highly trained white-collar staffs. As sales dropped and earnings were squeezed, the tendency was to hike prices in hopes of maintaining profits. Says Schultze: By insisting on immediate returns on their investment "instead of writing it off against the future, they showed a little bit of a lack of imagination...
...White-Collar Workers...