Word: white-collar
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...quit. The resignation made him even more of a white-collar folk legend, the free-spirited rebel who "fired GM," which suited De Lorean fine. "That was some salary to give up," he said in 1980, "but I have never worried about money. I do things for themselves." Richard Gerstenberg, then chairman of GM, arranged for De Lorean to take over as president of the National Alliance of Business, an organization of socially conscious executives. Among other good works, the group encouraged employment of ex-convicts...
Neither foresight nor omnipresence in white-collar enclaves ensured Xerox of success with products other than copiers. Its Star work station, one of the first office-of-the-future products designed for managers not comfortable with computers, has had disappointing sales since its introduction last year. Now it is almost too late. Says an analyst: "When it comes to automated offices, they're not good enough relative to those they're up against-IBM, AT&T and Kodak. They're not strong as a team...
...been around for years. The predecessors of the picture phones used in teleconferencing were first seen at the New York World's Fair in 1964. But the voice mailboxes are based on new developments in computers. And all the new phones are part of the drive to increase white-collar productivity...
...though some of those industries may disappear." David Lewis, a professor of business history at the University of Michigan, supports that view. Says he: "The prognosis is not good. Blue-collar workers have moved to the suburbs and lost interest, and unions have never found the key to organizing white-collar workers...
...Even so, it is not all that certain that the tradition-minded Saudis will want to move to Jubail in the first place. By and large, educated Saudis display a desire to remain in wealthy metropolises like Jidda, Riyadh and Dhahran, where easy money is to be found and white-collar jobs are plentiful. Yet to equip less-educated and poorer Saudis for the employment challenges of Jubail will take many years of social development that is now only in its earliest stages...