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...stakes are high. Graduates of the Business School, who can control millions of corporate dollars, might be less willing to donate if their school isn't part of the campaign. The Business School's muscular fundraising apparatus could be of use to some of the smaller graduate schools...
...making fowl processing one of the nation's most hazardous jobs. In terms of repetitive-motion disorders, poultry work is exceeded only by meat packing. In a study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1 in 3 chicken workers was found to have a work-related muscular-skeletal disorder resulting in moderate or extreme pain. Many employees become permanently disabled...
...vanquish Fidel Castro just as Marti battled Spain to free Cuba a century ago. Miami millionaire Jorge Mas Canosa is perhaps the most influential Cuban outside Havana. Over the past decade, he has built the Cuban American National Foundation, a lobby group representing Miami's Cuban exiles, into a muscular bullyboy capable of swaying U.S. foreign policy and pressuring governments from Moscow to Mexico City...
...Muscular Dystrophy Association and the March of Dimes and the American Cancer Society built the model for patient groups, advocates like Rehnquist are busy shattering it. They are, for a start, less polite about their demands on the medical establishment and more combative in their tactics. "We're becoming nasty, and I love it," says Abbey Meyers, executive director of the National Organization for Rare Disorders. The new generation of patient advocates has borrowed the medical activism first mastered by the AIDS lobby, in an effort to educate patients, inform physicians, influence politicians and pressure the pharmaceutical industry over everything...
...beer salesman Ron Brazeal, executive director of the United Leukodystrophy Foundation, who lost two sons to the disease, which is a rare genetic neurological disorder. Such groups devote little time to the kind of sympathy campaigns that have characterized the March of Dimes or the Jerry Lewis Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy. Instead they depend on their own highly committed members for operating funds...