Word: white-collar
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...series from 1965 to 1974. Instead, the bureau wants the new show to stress how much crook catching has changed. Said Young: "We thought it would be an excellent way to tell people about the kinds of cases we're working on today [notably political corruption, white-collar fraud and organized crime] and to let people see there are women in the FBI, there are blacks in the FBI. This, we hope, would go a long way as a recruiting tool. It also is a way of telling people what they're getting for their tax dollar...
...Carbide. A 250-room Sheraton now on the drawing boards will compete with the Hilton for Danbury's new and generally well-heeled visitors. "This is a city in transition," boasts Dyer, leaning back in a leather chair in his modern wood-paneled office. "It is becoming a white-collar community...
...into every nook and cranny of industrial manufacturing, from product conceptualization to the myriad tasks of actual production. In so doing, the infant technology is already firing up a billion-dollar market of its own, as well as beginning to alter the very meaning of work for blue-and white-collar employees alike. Says Jeffrey Ehrlich, a CAD/CAM specialist for General Electric: "An avalanche of technology is heading toward us. The problem is trying to get people to understand and digest...
...lifting is becoming an economic survival tool. Says Robert Stevenson, 58, a New York corporate interior designer who does not want to be forced into retirement: "If you're a dynamo but have gray hair, you won't get the job." Uplift by scalpel is not to white-collar occupations, either. A surgeon says, "It is Mr. and Mrs. America who shop at K mart are getting face-liftings." New York cosmetic surgeons report a new class of patients - policemen, sanitation workers and truckers...
market. But few industry watchers share its optimism. Most think that the firm faces another difficult year and will get by mainly because of drastic cost-cutting measures that have pared the company's white-collar work force in the U.S. by 22% since...