Word: white-collar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...present Pentagon officials, as well as industry employees and consultants who allegedly paid bribes for inside information that gave companies an unfair advantage in bidding for contracts. Two Democratic Congressmen or their staffs are also under scrutiny. Eventually, Operation Ill Wind may rank as one of the biggest federal white-collar crime cases ever prosecuted...
...result, the Ford Motor Co. of 1988 is sleeker and stronger than the bloated Ford of the 1970s. Since 1979, the firm has shut down 15 of some 165 plants worldwide and eliminated 60,000 of 165,000 blue-collar jobs and 20,000 of 73,000 white-collar positions. That enabled it to reduce annual operating costs by $5 billion, to an estimated $65 billion in 1987. Over the past few years, the company has amassed cash reserves of $10 billion, which should make a recession bearable...
...study group leaders will include William F. Weld '66, the former assistant attorney general who resigned from his post last March apparently in disapproval of his boss. Attorney General Edwin Meese III. Weld has told The Crimson he will discuss in his group white-collar crime and the relation of law enforcement to public policy...
...What they did was find that MIT violated the law, yet they refused to make explicit that it was flagrant," said tenant lobbyist Michael H. Turk. "Criminal sanctions should be applied to this white-collar crime," he said. "We're back to the battle of the houses. What still remains is restoring those houses, which is essential...
Workers at Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, B.U., Yale, and Princeton have unionized partially. Organizers at Princeton and the B.U. Medical Area are beginning to form white-collar unions, but their counterparts at Brown and Dartmouth remain largely unorganized. District 65, a national union dominated by university locals to which the B.U. and Columbia unions belong, is currently investigating the possibility of heading union drives at area schools, including Simmons, Northeastern and Suffolk...