Word: white-collar
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...with Boston's red-hot housing market,white-collar professionals are beginning to fillmany of the area's ethnic and non-whiteneighborhoods...
...dealt into surprising, plausible play. Notable jokers in this deck include Ving Rhames and Steve Zahn as Foley's accomplices--the former prone to careless confession, the latter a blitzed former hippie not sharp enough for the criminal life--and a comically menacing Don Cheadle making Albert Brooks' white-collar jailbird understandably nervous...
...shame--dominates the educational and professional ladders. The consequence of a fall from grace can be suicide, seen not as the ultimate tragedy but as an understandable or inevitable decision if linked to recent failure. Even prior to the news of Asia's financial crisis, the number of white-collar suicides was quite high. According to the National Police Agency, suicides in Japan in 1996 totaled about 23,000, more than double the number of traffic fatalities. Meanwhile, the reluctance to admit there are indeed problems has seeped onto the economic bargaining table in the most recent round of American...
Willar and Josephine Hightower had always been good company people in a sturdy and steady company town--until about 10 years ago. Willar had worked his way up to the position of engineer, proudly receiving excellent evaluations. Josephine, a senior computer programmer, relished her white-collar job. Their employer was the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., a sprawling nuclear-processing plant where the Federal Government stores some 35 million gal. of radioactive waste. It was the largest employer in South Carolina, and the jobs paid well. The Hightowers saw themselves as team players, partakers in the co-prosperity...
Born in Chicago, Ill. in the fall of 1947, Clinton grew up in the white-collar suburb of Park Ridge. Clinton's memoirs tell the story of a neighborhood where fathers took their children and their children's friends ice skating at the local pond and where the district school stayed open during the summer, sponsoring arts-and-crafts programs for the area children...