Word: white-collar
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...Since white-collar employees at universities across the nation first began to unionize about 15 years ago, administrators and union members have frequently clashed, creating tense and divided campuses...
Outside the pavilion's 21-TV lobby, a kimono-clad granny is being photographed in Goofy's welcoming embrace. White-collar workers in blue blazers and dark ties are shuffling around the lines for the world's only Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour. A girl in a warm-up jacket that reads IT IS ARGUED THAT DOUBLE SUICIDE IS THE SUBLIME CULMINATION OF LOVE placidly sips melon juice. Nothing disturbs the clean blue air except high tinkling cries of "Kawaii!" (Isn't it cute!) "Look," coos an extravagantly chic young mother to her three-year-old son, dapper in black leather...
Wall Street lawyers expect at least twelve more insider traders to be indicted, but the charges may not be filed soon. Explains Giuliani: "Sophisticated white-collar crimes traditionally take a long time, usually two to three years, to investigate." He dropped charges in May against three investment bankers arrested in February for insider trading: Robert Freeman, who worked at Goldman, Sachs, and Richard Wigton and Timothy Tabor, both formerly of Kidder, Peabody. But when he did so, he noted that he had discovered a much broader conspiracy and needed time to investigate it. He made it clear that Freeman, Wigton...
...within their own little world, it can continue," says Police Chief Reuben Greenberg. "At work there's a social cost." Ultimately that public exposure may be the most effective deterrent to spouse abuse. "We have the right in the U.S. to peace and tranquillity," says a former battered white-collar wife. "Yet for these women, home is the most dangerous place...
...White-collar guys with blood under their manicured nails, Tom Grunick (played by William Hurt in Broadcast News) and Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen in Wall Street) are the ring bearers, the genetically streamlined children, of the new amorality. Bud, in his mid-20s, is learning how to wheel and wheedle; Tom, in his mid-30s, already knows how to ingratiate and conquer. Bud does it with long hours and pit-bull doggedness, Tom with his boyish, passive charisma. Both men might tell you that ideals are as passe as peace marches and that the happening disease, the one everyone wants...