Word: white-collar
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...drastically increases fines for white-collar crime (e.g. up to $1 million for gross consumer fraud...
Dresses must get snagged in closing doors. Pistols must slip maddeningly down trouser legs. Lines like Dick's complaint that he is not cut out for blue-collar crime must be spoken: "I have a white-collar mentality. I panic in the face of death...
Like Lorincz, a member of the Agudat Israel Party, most Israelis are appalled and ashamed by the recent epidemic of white-collar corruption in the Jewish state. A few cynically shrug it off as the predictable result of Israel's gradual shift away from the zealous Utopian socialism of its founders. No one, however, is ignoring the crimes and the accusations of crimes, which range from bribes of refrigerators and TV sets slipped to government workers to the outright theft of millions of dollars. Psychiatrist Hillel Klein argues that the shock of the scandals is particularly hard...
...black women, the period from 1964 to 1970 was one of great economic progress, as a large number moved out of low-income, unskilled jobs in private households and farm work, and succeeded in becoming clerical and technical workers. Clerical occupations, however, are at the lower end of white-collar work; thus, black women have been particularly susceptible during the 1974-5 recession to layoffs and involuntary part-time employment...
...groups to which the G.O.P. appeals-the affluent, the well-educated, the suburbanites and white-collar workers-are growing. But to recapture the White House, the Republicans will have to solve several problems. First, they must smooth over divisions between conservative true believers and the moderate wing. Second, they must broaden their appeal to win more votes from nonwhites, city folk and the young...