Word: blue-collar
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...areas of Cambridge and Boston attract more hi-tech companies (particularly in the bio-tech industries), the percentages of blue-collar workers and families as a total percentage in the district have been declining...
...legends--from Massachusetts' original James Michael Curley to a young idealist named John F. Kennedy '40, to the shepherd of the Democratic revolution in Congress, Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, to blue-collar standard bearer, Joseph P. Kennedy...
...Frank Wildhorn just may be Broadway's most happy fella. A virtual unknown on the Great White Way nine months ago, he is the composer of two musicals, Jekyll & Hyde and The Scarlet Pimpernel, which have survived mostly scathing reviews to become box-office successes. A self-described "blue-collar professional songwriter" who has supplied material for the likes of Natalie Cole and Whitney Houston, he now has enough theater projects to keep him busy into the next millennium, and maybe the one after that. His favorite star, Linda Eder, is also his live-in companion--and next May will...
...champion its own idea. That support is likely to help overcome the claim that payroll-tax meddling imperils the Social Security system it funds. Now it's a race to see who gets the credit. As Lott told TIME, "You want to do something that would affect the blue-collar American? Buddy, this...
DIED. GIOVANNI ALBERTO AGNELLI, 33, great-grandson of the founder of the Fiat empire and heir apparent at the corporation; of intestinal cancer; in Turin. Company legend had the dashing but unpretentious Agnelli working as a lathe operator to savor blue-collar life. He had been expected to succeed Cesare Romiti (who took over as chairman from Agnelli's famous uncle Gianni...