Word: white-collar
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...term "Yuppie" has caught on because it describes young, urban, white-collar workers on their way up the corporate ladder without mentioning money directly. Money is implied. Sure, a Yuppie couple may be strapped for cash like the rest of us, but it's not because their salaries are low--it's because they're making payments on the condo, the late model Le Car and the slightly older Loyota, any number of credit card bills for woks and cursinarts and Marimekko sheets, membership fees at the Racquet and Tennis Club, and probably psychotherapy bills. Professional translates into making...
...getting a potentially dangerous change in areas like separation of duties," he says. "Whereas before you'd have one guy who'd write the check now they're being done by the same data operator." It is from inside and costs the company $500,000 whereas average white-collar crimes are for $20,000," Santis says...
...other out-of-touch hacks? Talk about the blind leading the blind! The growing legions of computer buffs and professionals are loaded with people who turn to an impersonal, unemotional computer to give them what they can neither give nor get from flesh-and-blood relationships. Are eyestrain, increased white-collar crime and broken marriages the improved world the computer has brought...
...Great! Beautiful! A hell of a job!" bubbled Michael Ward of New York City's Jesup & Lament Securities. The excitement was not over just the amount of profits but also how they were achieved: more efficient production with more automation, higher prices, lower costs, sharply reduced blue-and white-collar work forces. GM's earnings last year, for example, were about the same as in 1978, but with 1.7 million fewer vehicle sales...
...lucky because they live in a suburban area northwest of Chicago where a 24-hour hot-line service-apparently the nation's first-has been set up to give them comfort and advice. Kids Line reaches out to some 60,000 children under 13 in several predominantly white-collar communities. The program is staffed by 140 volunteers who have undergone intensive briefing by psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers on such problems as suicide, depression, child beating and drug abuse. Most frequently they hear from children who become frightened when it gets dark and their parents have not come home...