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Another heartstring tug from your American Scene. Thousands of us middle-aged men harbor memories of the rumble and roar of combines [Sept. 4]. For many young Plainsmen in the '50s, it was the price we'd decided to pay for college tuition, books and white-collar dreams fulfilled...
...relying on a staff of only 74 investigators to police its 35,000 employees. The majority of them have no experience or training in fraud investigation. Much of their time is spent on discrimination complaints. Even so, GSA investigators are armed with handguns, of dubious use when dealing with white-collar crime. Said Subcommittee Chairman Lawton Chiles: "They should be required to carry a pencil and a calculator so they can tote...
Gere plays Stony De Coco, a 19-year-old who still lives with his suffocating parents in the antiseptic, concrete high-rises of The Bronx. Should Stony continue the family tradition and become a construction worker? Or should he follow his desires and become a white-collar counselor to infirm children? A simple dilemma, but Bloodbrothers takes forever to resolve it. There is so much clutter in this movie that it is often difficult to find Stony amidst the underbrush...
Fraud and white-collar crimes against he government are not limited to the GSA. Elmer B. Staats, comptroller general of the GSA, said at the subcommittee hearing...
Wurf's foghorn voice offers even more hope. In the 14 years that he has been president of the AFSCME, he has quadrupled its membership to just over 1 million, and signed up people thought to be particularly difficult to organize: white-collar workers, women, blacks. His main pitch: an insistence that union membership is the passport not just to better pay but also to "dignity" for workers who, he contends, were long "at the mercy of irresponsible politicians...