Word: kirkland
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Dissension erupted among AFL-CIO leaders when President Lane Kirkland announced he will retire on Aug. 1. Despite longtime expectations that deputy Thomas Donahue would inherit the office, an opposition ticket supported by 57% of the federation's membership will challenge...
Legendary AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, whom rivals had pressured for weeks to resign, said he would leave the 13.3-million-member labor federation Aug. 1 -- with a recommendation that his protege, executive secretary Thomas Donahue, succeed him. But powerful dissidents in the flagging organization are not backing his choice. "Handovers like that are dinosaurs," saysTIME Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter. "Nobody in the labor movement is in the mood to sleep through this. They want a generational shift." The battle parallels the recent upheaval in the Teamsters union, in which one-time radicals rolled over an outgoing leader...
...macho' contest over which team could shoot itself in the foot with the bigger gun." Or: "The first three Cornell scores were virtual gifts from St. Restic and his 45 reindeer." Suffice it to say these statements didn't play well in Mather, Currier and Kirkland (Where Intelligence Is Just Another Big Word) Houses...
...special prayer was offered for Dominic J.Armijo '95, a Kirkland House resident whocommitted suicide last January
...Navy took over Eliot and Kirkland Houses to house V-12 and Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC...