The blue-collar crowd that is buying pickup trucks may want them equipped with air-conditioning, stereos and other frills, but they "are still price shopping," car dealers say.

"My claim to fame has always been that I could get along with a business crowd and a blue-collar crowd in a bowling alley."

But with the blue-collar crowd being priced out of the neighborhood and the real estate market strong, his family sold the building.

At first, the blue-collar crowd felt it, then the bistro-and-brasserie crowd.

All of which is already attracting an enthusiastic, blue-collar crowd and might even entice some non-conformists from the tonier East to cross the Shinnecock Canal before the season ends.

Mr. Dukakis needs the blue-collar crowd.

The title Chief Executive Officer, for most of that blue-collar crowd, vied in popularity and esteem with Prince of Darkness.

Rudy Davalos, the athletic director, calls the expressive Fraschilla "a breath of fresh air" who communicates well with the Lobos' blue-collar crowd and with the state's diverse ethnic groups.

For the most part, this has been a gambling den for the blue-collar crowd.

It is a good night for Gore, who seems entirely at home with this rural, blue-collar crowd.