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Sharpe, a Navy lieutenant in the Gulf War and the son of a 28-year Air Force veteran, appeals to Florida's veterans. But the district's blue-collar population and ethnic mix create a constituency that lacks the political cohesiveness of other Florida districts. But with the endorsement of former G.O.P. presidential hopeful Steve Forbes, Sharpe has created an "eight-point tax-simplification plan" that may win supporters from all sides...
...only 4% of the vote. This year Tierney is counting on the added support of the district's labor unions. He promises to stop "corporate welfare," reward companies that are good to employees, and fight balanced-budget plans that take entitlements and quality public education away from blue-collar voters. He's pro-environment and vows vigilance on the Clean Water, Clean Air and Clean Harbor acts...
Fitzsimmons, who resigned last year as president of University Microfilms International in Ann Arbor, had the connections and capital to mount a credible campaign against incumbent Lynn Rivers. Yet like her, he advertises his blue-collar origins--he is a butcher's son--to woo the district's autoworkers. Fitzsimmons paints himself as a hard-nosed businessman who will get results, but he will have to fight hard for the influential working class...
...insists that the Inquirer has "managed to stay whole in all the important ways." This fall, for instance, the paper ran a series, "America: Who Stole the Dream?," for which two reporters spent more than two years, beginning before the 1995 cutbacks, researching the loss of decent jobs for blue-collar workers. King does not object to the demand for double-digit profitability, but he does wonder what further compromises may be necessary to achieve it. "We have stuck stubbornly to substance, and we've lost a lot of circulation," he says. "What makes a newspaper successful? Does this high...
This Americanization of Toyota aims to remove the last shreds of resistance that some consumers--particularly in the blue-collar Midwest--still have for foreign nameplates. A recent Toyota study found that 30% of the Americans surveyed said they would not buy a Japanese vehicle. Certainly, for this part of rural, small-town America, the high-paying manufacturing jobs that Toyota is creating will go a long way toward overcoming historic prejudices...