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...lifelong native of North Cambridge, Danehy says he discovered that the Arthur D. Little research firm was testing nerve gas agents in his neighborhood; he wants to reform rent control laws to permit owners to occupy their units; and will encourage economic development through, the creation of more blue collar jobs...
...stereotypical American beer lover has long been the brawny, blue-collar worker who likes to guzzle a few Budweisers or Millers after a hard day on the assembly line. In recent years, though, beer fans have included more and more suds-sipping connoisseurs who appreciate the taste of fine foreign brews like Heineken and Beck's. Since 1980, U.S. consumption of imported beer has risen 58%, compared with 1.3% for domestic brands. Though imports still account for less than 5% of the U.S. market, American brewers are responding to the heightened competition. Heileman, for example, is building a new plant...
Many Congressmen returned from the August recess convinced that stopping imports was the cause of the hour. Democrats in particular thought that they had hit on an issue that might at last win back the blue-collar workers, especially Southern whites, who had been deserting them in droves. Some read great significance into a special congressional election in the First District of Texas in August. Democrat Jim Chapman, an advocate of protection, defeated Republican Edd Hargett, who said that he did not understand "what trade policies have to do with bringing jobs to east Texas." Later analysis suggested that many...
...that carried Ronald Reagan into a second term of office nearly a year ago prompted many analysts to speculate that the U.S. body politic was undergoing a fundamental realignment in party identification and loyalty. The President's strong showing among many groups traditionally associated with the Democrats, including blue-collar families and the young, seemed to indicate that Reagan might be forging a new Republican majority, much as Franklin D. Roosevelt had done for the Democrats in the early days of the New Deal. A survey conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White suggests that nothing quite that epochal...
...author shrewdly uses the dilemmas of leadership as counterpoint to three narratives of Bostonians who suffered through the school battles. The Twymons are a fatherless, churchgoing black family of seven, dependent on public assistance. Alice McGoff is an Irish Catholic widow of a blue-collar worker; she and her seven children live in public housing in the ethnically isolated Charlestown section. Colin and Joan Diver are white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, motivated by liberal compassion. They see themselves and their two sons as "urban pioneers" in the integrated South End, the husband working in city and state government, the wife directing...