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...general campaign is a distant dream, but Clinton is assiduously pursuing his centrist lines so he can avoid being perceived as tacking back from a more liberal stance. "You're killed if you look expedient," he says, "and killed if you're caught too clearly tailoring your message for different audiences" -- which explains why Clinton tells the Republicans he's courting that he will pay for a middle-class tax break by raising the wealthy's tax rates...
...Governor Bill Clinton has lined up endorsements from Mississippi Congressman Mike Espy and other black Democrats that should help him dominate Dixie's primaries in March. Iowa Senator Tom Harkin might also pick up black support among civil rights activists who find his liberalism more congenial than Clinton's centrist approach...
...exactly is Clinton catching on across the Democrats' ideological spectrum? Why are the likes of Ickes and Manton and an increasing number of Democratic fat cats and trade-union leaders flocking to a centrist Southern Governor so soon after most of them swore they'd be long dead before either they or the country would again support another Deep South Democrat...
...distinct image, the campaign will gain heat. For Kerrey, New Hampshire represents an opportunity to right himself after a rocky couple of months culminating in the replacement last week of his national campaign manager. Harkin, the most combative and liberal of the group, is expected to attack the centrist Clinton, whom Harkin views as his main rival in the coming months. Neither of the other two candidates, Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder and former California Governor Jerry Brown, appears to be gaining much traction in what looks to be one of the most fluid primary-season openers in recent memory...
...could kick in when big shots' salaries exceed 25 times the earnings of a company's lowest- paid worker. Clinton views most current worker-training schemes as virtually useless. "Roughly 70% of corporate training expenses serve only 10% of employees," says Rob Shapiro of the Progressive Policy Institute, a centrist think tank that is advising Clinton. "Companies are loath to train lower-rung employees for fear they'll leave for other jobs. Compelling all U.S. corporations to spend similar amounts on all employees would solve the problem...