Word: white-collar
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...white-collar office may be the best friend the entertainment industry has these days. The computer has erased the difference between work and play--YouTube, Web comics, online TV series--and nowhere is this symbiosis more important than in music. The iPod and iTunes, which allow you to take your music collection on your commute and to your desk, made Apple cool again. Radio stations market their online streams to cubicle jockeys. The music biz owes its digital-age existence in large part to officeworkers and their earbuds...
...openings on USAJobs.com and Military.com and establishing contact with veterans at employers of interest. With his experience as a public affairs officer, his Internet and networking savvy, and degrees from the University of Texas and Northwestern, he'll likely have his pick of offers. "For those of us with white-collar jobs, it's easy," he admits. "But for foot soldiers or someone in artillery, how does that translate...
...century ago, as men moved from villages to cities-or overseas-to find work, they had very little contact with their sons. Those sons, with educations paid for by their fathers' remittances, were able to advance up the socioeconomic ladder. But the jobs they took-many of them white-collar jobs at the heart of the Asian economic boom-robbed them of a family life, too. Today, their sons-the third generation and the present crop of fathers-are the product of two previous generations of absent dads. "The pattern of fatherlessness can be passed down," says Wong Suen Kwong...
...hedonistic far-left paradise peopled by sloganeering alpha-women (and about to be led by one), pelting the remaining handful of lonely moderates waiting for Mr. Right with dated girl-power platitudes and free condoms. An opposing, liberal conception views Harvard as the most fertile breeding ground of white-collar sexism, where boys will be boys and women will be quiet, or otherwise risk immediate backlash from the men who make up an overbearing majority of student government and faculty positions...
Even better, Batman understands both the strife of the white-collar elite and the pressures of the blue-collar man. By day, he is the CEO and president of Wayne Enterprises, one of the most efficiently run multi-billion dollar corporations in the world. By night, he deals head-on with the types of criminal activity that plague so many lower-class communities. He understands you, whoever you are and whatever part of our glorious nation you come from...