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Working Stiff

Informal; an employee in a non-management position, especially one who is treated poorly. The term often is used in reference to tensions between corporate authorities and those under them.

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The backbone of wrestling's popularity is now, as it always has been, the Saturday afternoon broadcast, timed to maximize the potential audience of school kids and working stiffs.

Sport or sideshow?

Law & Order and Homicide present their protagonists as low-key working stiffs with a strong sense of morals who ploddingly put together the clues that will solve a crime.

Copping out

Can working stiffs or members of society who are experiencing homelessness attain better lives?

Author Adam Shepard Undertakes Journey to Chronicle an 'Average Joe's' Search for the American Dream

It feels less like absolution than simple desire to see someone get past a troubling personal problem many working stiffs battle with.

MIRRORED REFLECTION IDENTIFYING WITH BRADLEY'S VICES MAKES ONE ROOT FOR HIM

Amos and Micah, two of the Bible's sharpest social critics, were ordinary working stiffs like Moore, peasant shepherds who lob Yahweh's curses and judgments at wealthy and powerful Hebrews for breaking the covenant by turning their backs on widows, orphans, and aliens.

Blessed are the muckrakers: Michael Moore and other contemporary truth-tellers can trace their lineage to the biblical prophets and godly gadflies who took on the establishments of their day. (culture in context)

And taxes are being cut for millionaires and raised for many working stiffs.

The War Against the Poor

How can we let the poor working stiffs and fixed income families freeze to death because they can't afford $200, $300 or $400 per month for heating bills?

Jeno F. Paulucci Demands Higher Minimum Wage; Appeals for Excess Profits Tax, Fuel Price Controls

It's not just a line proffered by a young boy with an exceptional range of vision, it's now the case for all those working stiffs in search of emotional consolation who plump themselves down in front of the boob tube during prime time.

A HALF-BAKED MEDIUM TV PRODUCERS SEEK TITILLATION OVER HONEST DRAMATIC DEPTH

It's clear that Stanley and Danko see their modern-day millionaires as virtuous working stiffs who have it all over the flashy celebrities or CEOs living far beyond their means.

Who wants to be a millionaire?

Working stiffs are devoting their futile little lives to futile little jobs, like running a Fresh 'n Frosty machine.

The Man Who Invented Saturday Morning and Other Adventures in American Enterprise

That's essentially what's going on here, with a mild twist: Horny 20- somethings playing affluent variations on Bill Murray's ``It just doesn't matter'' '80s persona look down their blue-blooded, probably surgically enhanced noses at working stiffs and mildly patronize them.

BOLD BUT BORING FOX'S INNOVATIVE SUMMER SCHEDULE LAYS THREE EGGS

Starship Regulars" is a comedy about the ordinary working stiffs -- men and women, earthlings and other species -- aboard an interplanetary military spaceship.

Showtime Networks Orders Comedy Series From Icebox.com; First Original Online Series to Be Sold to Television