Word: white-collar
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...last remaining gap in the system has been old-age pensions for white-collar workers, who otherwise enjoyed all benefits. Last week President Gabriel González Videla closed the gap. He signed a bill that gives salaried employees pensions equal to 100% of their pay at 60, plus a benefit that now seems all-important: an escalator clause guaranteed to keep their retirement pay abreast of the cost of living...
...French Revolution and from Conservative roots in monarchical Spain, have become blurred. The most frequently mentioned issue nowadays is religious: Liberals are mildly anticlerical (although Colombia is 99.5% Catholic); Conservatives warmly embrace the church and its hierarchy. There is no clean economic cleavage between the parties, but industrialists, labor, white-collar classes tend to be Liberals, while landholders, many farmers and most priests are Conservatives. Liberals, in the last contested election, polled 58% of the vote...
Said a jubilant Wall Streeter: "We've finally caught up with the white-collar class." The source of the joy on Wall Street was a decision last week by New York Stock Exchange governors to make the summer five-day week permanent. To make up for the shorter week, trading hours will be extended half an hour...
...empty under the sun, and I had a feeling that it was always so." He finds that his resistance to sexual temptation, of which he has been proud, was really nothing to brag about, after all-"The truth was that nothing had been offered me." The role of a white-collar Faust, in short, had its drawbacks...
Patton found that top management salaries between 1939 and 1950 increased less than those of any other working group. In eleven years, management salaries rose 35%, while those of foremen rose 83% and hourly and white-collar workers, 106%. The relatively small executive increases, plus heavy taxes in the high-salary brackets, cut down executives' real purchasing power 59% while hourly and white-collar workers had a rise...