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Since his election in 1981, Bozzotto has transformed the relatively passive Local 26--which represents all of Harvard's dining hall workers, as well as the Faculty Club cooks and waitresses--into an active entity, aware of their rights as members of the community, says Eugene Bruskin, who heads the Boston-based Massachusetts Labor Support Project...
Bozzotto's leadership reflects a nationwide trend in labor away from the traditionally isolated union organization, Bruskin says. "Domenic believes that the labor movement shouldn't exist as an isolated movement that doesn't care about anything but more money for its members. It has a role to play for social justice, and to do this, its leaders must build a labor-community relationship...
This summer break dancers have appeared in commercials for McDonald's, Pepsi-Cola and Mountain Dew. R.H. Bruskin, a New Jersey market research firm, estimates that some 30% of U.S. teen-agers have tried break dancing. The company does not estimate how many of them may have broken an arm or a leg in the process. But would-be breakers no longer have to risk aches and sprains to get their kicks. A Silicon Valley firm, Epyx, has marketed a video game called Breakdance. Its joystick-controlled hero, named Hot Feet, knows more than 400 different moves...
...Then I noticed what appeared to be red flares passing overhead and turned to Captain Robert Bruskin . . . to ask what they were. 'Tracer shells,' he snapped. . . . After daylight we found fragments and saw where one had made a four-to six-inch dent in a [oil] tank before ricocheting off. . . . We found a German torpedo lying on the shore. It was a great big fellow, perhaps 18 ft. long, with a sharp nose...
...remember Captain Bruskin saying: 'Well, here's your...