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Media observers say the Times is not moving to appeal to blue-collar tabloid readers; they are of little interest anyway to the kind of upscale advertisers the paper attracts. Instead, it is straining to keep up with the evolving taste of younger readers, who have come of age expecting a lighter, more gossipy style of journalism. This year Frankel hired consulting editor Adam Moss, the former managing editor of Seven Days, a defunct New York weekly that was popular among the yuppie Manhattanites whom the Times must hold as readers. The hope is that Moss...
...pinching pennies up in the executive suite. As corporations begin to release their proxy statements and annual reports for 1990, many stockholders are getting steamed up reading about the fat raises and other payments their chief executives raked in. Already making 160 times what average blue-collar employees receive, chiefs of America's largest companies garnered pay hikes last year of 12% to 15% as the economy nose-dived. Some CEO pay packages are so large, says Stephen O'Byrne, a compensation expert at the consulting firm Towers Perrin, that they "represent investment decisions on the order of building...
Barbara Mikulski, Maryland. This abrasive first-termer hasn't impressed the folks back home. Mikulski will have trouble winning back the support of conservative blue-collar voters who don't understand why she didn't support punching out Saddam Hussein...
...entry-level perception is not unfounded, and many drivers use the job as a stepping stone, Cavellini explains, adding that in times of fiscal stability, driving a cab is much like other blue-collar occupations...
...Chicago's poorest neighborhoods, declared, "If George Bush wants to set deadlines, he could set deadlines on unemployment, apartheid, homelessness. He has been hell-bound for months on war. I have never heard a President talk so much war talk in my lifetime." During Vietnam, American labor unions and blue-collar workers tended to support the war. This time, the presidents of * nine major unions argued for a peaceful solution...