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  • Still Im a guy with a blue collar dad and whitecollar mother,. .both carried the common sence gene and a fairly good take on what was appropriate.

    Tighten Chokes, Lighten Up 2009

  • Still Im a guy with a blue collar dad and whitecollar mother,. .both carried the common sence gene and a fairly good take on what was appropriate.

    Tighten Chokes, Lighten Up 2009

  • Still, as they read the headlines about "down-sizing" and hear dinner-table stories about Yuppie layoffs, the perception is growing among whitecollar workers that something has gone badly awry (page 48).

    How Safe Is Your Job? 2008

  • This morning I went shopping and met two people from both ends of the spectrum - one whitecollar job, not badly off - the other blue collar job, lifelong socialist, council house tenant...they both said the same things..

    Gordon Gives Himself a Shock 2007

  • Poor people are more desperate and have fewer means to be Enron or Halliburton or Frist or Delay or Bush whitecollar crooks.

    Think Progress » Partisan Witchhunt? Foreman of “Runaway” Grand Jury Praises DeLay 2005

  • He needs to go to jail along with the other whitecollar thug ganbangars.

    Think Progress » Frist Stock Sale Conflicts With Senate Ethics Rules 2005

  • He needs to go to jail along with the other whitecollar thug ganbangars.

    Think Progress » Frist Stock Sale Conflicts With Senate Ethics Rules 2005

  • A muddled egalitarianism has permeated our society and disseminated the myth that everyone has an inalienable right to be a middle class whitecollar worker irrespective of ability or need.

    How Canada Does It and Other Social Diseases 1982

  • Wiseman gets not only that (easy enough), but he also nails the camaraderie between gym people at these different levels and goals, and how conversation here presupposes the martial virtues rather the whitecollar aversion thereto.

    Rightwing Film Geek vjmorton 2010

  • Golden Gloves guys, marginal pros and washed-up ex-pros making a living by training others, whitecollar guys who want to get in shape, kids who need to learn to fight back, frat boys impressing their girl, ethnic minorities with a dream, soldiers or cops who enjoy combat in all forms, women learning self-defense.

    Rightwing Film Geek vjmorton 2010

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