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...Screen. The Gallos have a talent for sensing consumer trends and being first with new products, as they were with pop wines. Now that growth is leveling off in the pop field, the Gallos appear to be shifting their promotional efforts to more conventional wines-Chablis Blanc, Pink Chablis, Burgundy and Hearty Burgundy...
Incumbent State Representatives Michael J. Lombardi and John J. Toomey were re-elected in the First Middlesex District's Democratic primary, despite the challenge from Vellucci and two liberal candidates. Michael J. Amato and Doreen Blanc. The two winners will face only token opposition in November...
...Doreen Blanc, a former high school teacher now working at Tufts, also complains of a lack of leadership, but the state level. Her chief interest is education and that is her main issue--racial inbalance in the schools, certification of teachers, how to pay for education...
Like most of the candidates, Blanc would replace the present flat-rate income tax with a graduate income tax, and reduce the property tax by finding other ways to finance the City's schools. And in another area, Blanc says. "There just have to be massive programs in housing. There must be state money for old and delapidated buildings, and we need a much stronger rent control...
Vellucci, Toomey and Lombardi will be competing for the conservative vote, mostly centered in Wards One and Two. Amato and Blanc will probably divide the votes of young people and professionals in Wards Three and Four, making some inroads with the voters in the other two wards because of general dissatisfaction with incumbent politicians...