Word: white-collar
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Ambition, for most of the Eurasian girls at Cambodia's Descartes Seminary, consisted mainly of the wish one day to marry a French white-collar worker, a clerk, for instance, at the Banque de I'Indochine. But slim, delicate, bronzed Monique Izzi, daughter of a half-French, half-Italian father and a Cambodian mother, had quite another idea. Better, she thought, a real prince, even a Cambodian one with concubines, than a mere wage-earning European. A fragile and lovely center of interest in a bikini bathing suit by the pool at Le Cercle Sportif, Monique gave...
...Prosperity. "And what about this great prosperity-this repetitious chant which is being drummed into the minds of the American people? Is there prosperity for the small businessman who, in greater number every day, is forced into bankruptcy or swallowed up in monopoly mergers? Is there prosperity for the white-collar worker whose fixed salary makes it increasingly difficult for him to make ends meet? Is there prosperity for the American farmer...
...fight to the finish. Negotiations between Westinghouse and electrical workers are still snarled, and 40 of 98 plants are shut down. Westinghouse is clearing the decks by chopping executive salaries 40% to 50%, cutting purchases and research to the bone; company will also lay off large numbers of white-collar and nonstriking workers...
...production, job discrimination against the Negro has begun to melt. Swept off farms since 1930 (when they made up 35% of rural labor), Negroes by this year made up nearly 72% of the unskilled and semiskilled manual labor force. But only about 10% of U.S. middle-class white-collar workers are Negroes...
...strongly believe that the white-collar salaried employee needs protection...