Word: white-collar
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...group chief executive of Harvey Nichols, "but it's the safe haven of the whole region, the playground of the Middle East, an attractive, exclusive market with all this novelty." Indeed, mall shopping is the No. 1 leisure activity here for both the wealthy local Emirati people and the white-collar expats who outnumber them. After all, there's not much else to do in this heat?except build more malls, as South Asian migrant workers do in round-the-clock shifts...
...three suspects grew up in upscale Birmingham suburbs of Vestavia and Hoover, the former the neighborhood of ex-Healthsouth CEO Richard Scrushy, one of Birmingham?s richest and most notorious residents, who beat federal white-collar crime charges last year of cooking Healthsouth?s books. The suspects knew each other from attending Birmingham-Southern College, a private and exclusive liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church since its founding in 1856. Moseley and DeBusk were fellow drama and theater students at Birmingham-Southern, which has a small enrollment of 1,500 students. Cloyd also attended Birmingham-Southern before...
...Davis describes additional challenges facing those who work in outdoor education, such as securing health insurance. “In a lot of ways, you have to be doubly-responsible because it doesn’t take care of you the way white-collar careers do,” Davis says...
...world's largest automaker, has 11 U.S. plants and expects to open a truck factory in San Antonio, Texas, in 2006. European brands, including BMW and Mercedes-Benz, are also growing. CAR estimates that foreign automakers operating in the U.S. add 1.8 million jobs to the American economy, including white-collar, dealership and supplier positions--from partsmakers to the bartenders at post-whistle watering holes...
...Things poised as they are, academia is not out of the question.But like many upperclassmen, a fair bit of existential anxiety has lately welled up in me. Here’s my problem: I love history, but I am ambivalent about becoming an academic—the whitest of white-collar professionals, whose usefulness to society at large is questionable, who at worst appears to live in a detached existence floating above the mundane everyday.This spectacle has, at least, offered up one epiphany: professors are homo sapiens, too. Just like their students back home, some will hook up, and many...