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...most noticeable damage has been done in Dallas, where the first man through the picket line was Co-Captain Randy White. "Captain Scab," Tailback Tony Dorsett called him. In the next instant, threatened by the fine print in his contract, Dorsett followed. Quarterback Danny White too. "White's a weenie! We want Sweeney!" the fans clamored. Tired of decay, they actually preferred the rhinestone Cowboys, led by a small and appealing Doug Flutie- type, Kevin Sweeney. Repaying Tom Landry for a lopsided replacement loss three weeks ago, Philadelphia Coach Buddy Ryan gleefully ran up the score last week...
...reserve tight-end slot to a man he had beaten out earlier, Craig McEwen. "If I knew then what I know now," Dennison said, "I'd have never left." Quarterback Babe Laufenberg, who ended a third Redskins episode with still no playing time, squandered his best chance on the picket line. "I have one foot on a banana peel and the other in the grave," he said, "and I didn't even get to eat the banana...
...picket line was intended to inform students of the firm's "unethical practices," not to dissuade them from interviewing, said HLLP member Joe Kohanski. The picketed firm, the Houston-based Fulbright and Jaworski, is but one of eight law firms currently boycotted by the HLLP, a group of 20 Law School students...
Frank G. Jones, a representative from Fulbright and Jowalski, said that despite a high number of no-shows, he didn't think the picket line had an effect on the number of interviews. He said he thought the appointments which were not kept had been sche- duled by the boycotters in an effort to limitthe number of legitimate interviews the firm couldconduct...
...would have been wise to delay the strike until the World Series was over. Still, selfish players, such as Mark Gastineau of the Jets and Lawrence Taylor of the Giants--who couldn't comprehend the union's earlier efforts in their ability to sign mega-contracts and bolted the picket lines--need to be faulted for disrupting union solidarity and making it impossible for the Player's Association to stand together through the winter...