Word: white-collar
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...Cambridge franchise, and only if it presents the best proposal, should it build a municipally-owned cable system. Cable TV is one of the fastest-growing entertainment industries nationally. Cambridge, while not ideal because of construction considerations, offers a cable operator an attractive market with plenty of white-collar households and average incomes across the city above...
After he was elected New Mexico's attorney general in 1974, Anaya transformed the office from a sleepy political backwater into one of the most visible and independent positions in the state by crusading against white-collar crime and championing consumer and environmental issues. In 1982 he was elected Governor by a margin of 25,000 votes out of 406,000 cast, considered a landslide in New Mexico. Under state law, however, Anaya cannot succeed himself, a fact that has made him work feverishly to put his populist stamp on state government and consolidate power in the Governor...
...earmark $15 million for scholarships and college and university endowments. As a result of this aid, more than 100,000 women and minorities, together with their families, will be eligible to attend classes at 28 U.S. institutions. GM will spend an additional $8.9 million to train 1,250 white-collar workers for better-paying and more responsible jobs within the company...
...last year, women accounted for about 17% of the car manufacturer's nearly 450,000 U.S. employees; minorities constituted some 17.5%. Many of the new gains are expected to come in white-collar positions. Only some 6.5% of GM's managers are women, for example, while minorities make up 8.9%. Said one company official: "I would suspect we're going to see more emphasis on moving women and minorities up through the ranks of the organization...
Only a year ago, hardly anyone outside the close-knit world of commodities trading would have recognized the name Marc Rich. Obsessively reclusive, Rich kept his billion-dollar business behind frosted glass. But now Rich is on his way to becoming infamous as a white-collar fugitive. After 18 months of investigation, a grand jury in Manhattan last week accused Rich and some of his associates of evading at least $48 million in U.S. income taxes. U.S. attorneys called the case "the largest tax-evasion scheme ever prosecuted...