Word: white-collar
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...those trained for specific auto-related jobs, the transition to the South is more difficult. "Many have skills that don't fit here," says Collins. An automotive machinist used to pushing buttons on an assembly line is not trained for the complicated work done by oil-industry machinists. White-collar workers also face problems. Detroit's Wade Cook, 48, a former railroad employee with 16 years of management experience, has sent scores of resumes to the Sunbelt without result. The difficulty, explains University of Houston Sociologist William Simon, is that the Texas economy is highly technical...
...undue notice. The number of competitors means that the seller and the buyer can more easily bargain for deals. These conditions, for example, are found in contracts for the sale of telecommunications equipment or aircraft and for most construction programs. Says Jules Kroll, a New York-based consultant on white-collar crime: "If there's only one or two companies bidding on a deal, it might go down very straight. But if you've eight guys who can do it, then people are going to get creative...
Because Harris has been convicted of murder, she must serve her time at a maximum-security prison, not one of the fenced-in "country clubs" favored by Watergate felons and other white-collar convicts. Her home will be the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, 47 miles northeast of New York City. Despite its red brick colonial buildings and its playing fields, Bedford Hills is a long way from Madeira. Outside there is a 12-ft.-high chain-link fence topped with barbed wire; inside there are 360 two-story cellblocks...
...only high federal official who is calling for a new attack on crime. At his confirmation hearings last month, Attorney General William French Smith said that the Justice Department would make violent crime its top priority, in contrast to the Carter Administration's focus on white-collar crime...
...fascism of the left, just like the right." Similar tactics also won the militants considerable support among the unions, where they have had immeasurable help from the likes of Arthur Scargill, the combative Marxist president of the Yorkshire Miners, and Clive Jenkins, general secretary of the 500,000-member white-collar Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs. Widespread apathy among the rank and file has also made the militants' job easier. Individual party membership has dropped to about 220,000 from a high of more than 1 million...