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Chung's road to the finals was much bumpier than Majmudar's. In his semi-final match against Princeton's Pat Sweeney, Chung outlasted Sweeney in the marathon...
...chips cooked in olestra. Because the stuff has not been approved by the FDA, each of us has signed a Procter & Gamble "informed consent" release, which we notice with some discomfort bears the 800 number of a doctor to call in case of emergency. This fellow, whose name is Sweeney, will chopper in with a medevac team if something goes wrong. Or so we assume...
...more to say. There will be other olestra products, if and when the FDA gives P&G the green light. But right now the chips are all we have, and the chips are all right. Nobody experiences digestive uproar, so we don't get to find out whether Doc Sweeney is really standing by his phone...
Seeking to revive the sagging fortunes of organized labor, AFL-CIO delegates elected insurgent John Sweeney to become the new president of the national labor federation. Sweeney beat out insider Thomas Donahue by pledging to rebuild union membership, open more labor posts to minorities and women and-perhaps most significant-adopt more militant tactics against cost-slashing employers. True to his word, Sweeney led a protest march through New York City's garment district the day after his election...
...tactics have been more confrontational--or successful--than those employed by a campaign called Justice for Janitors, sponsored by Sweeney's service-employees union, which has organized some 30,000 building cleaners over the past five years and brought the number of janitors in the union to 180,000. Members last spring staged a sit-in at the chic intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California, that led to 49 arrests. But the demonstration paid off for 8,000 janitors employed by companies throughout the Los Angeles area, who won health benefits and paid vacation...