Word: white-collar
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...ourselves sending partial payments as a stalling tactic. To avoid the high cost of day care-an expense our combined earnings couldn't begin to cover-we work opposite shifts. Our parents have even taken over our car payments. We often marvel at the fact that two well-educated white-collar workers like ourselves are worse off financially than most of our less-schooled, blue-collar neighbors. ANA M. WAGNER-HOFFMAN Germantown, Maryland Via America Online...
...back in Britain. Nick's immediate future is uncertain. Singapore has requested his extradition, and Leeson will no doubt contest any attempt to send him back to Asia. In addition to a German lawyer, Leeson has retained lawyers from Kingsley Napley, Britain's leading firm specializing in white-collar crime. Leeson, said Christopher Murray, his attorney at the firm, simply wanted to return to England "to put the record straight." Leeson's sister Sarah, 18, was emphatic. "One person can't lose all that money," she said. "They are playing on his background, making him a scapegoat because...
...uniformed UN troops pass by Bosnians freezing in the mountains and air-drop relief food into an icy river. Some UN officers struggle with the cruelty of this position, but most are unable or unwilling to resist policy defined by distant leaders. Bosnian military leaders, many former intellectuals or white-collar workers, speak with guarded firmness about the fighting, appearing at worst as misplaced men, but mostly seeming deeply and quietly courageous...
...expanding probe of Tyson Foods has been swift and furious. In a prepared statement, company spokesman Archie Schaffer accused Smaltz of going "outside the scope of the independent counsel's charge" and of "taking off on a politically motivated witch-hunt." Tyson has hired Thomas Green, a top Washington white-collar defense attorney, to represent the company. Smaltz, however, says he was given the jurisdiction to look into any criminal charges arising from his original inquiry. "It's a very broad mandate," he said in an interview...
...federal panel appointed a Los Angeles attorney to investigate whether Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy illegally accepted travel, lodging and sports tickets from Tyson Foods and other companies doing business with his department. Donald C. Smaltz, a federal prosecutor in the 1960s, has a reputation as an ace in white-collar crime cases...