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...Running a deficit might actually be a good way to generate outside funds," says Amy P. Sweeney, assistant professor of business administration at the Business School...
...Sweeney further notes that Radcliffe, as a not-for-profit organization, is not subject to the same standards of fiscal responsibility as for-profit groups. Radcliffe, she says, might reasonably engage in deficit spending if such a policy benefits its students...
Nicholas N. Sweeney '92 did not qualify for the discus finals for his native Ireland; J. Adam Holland '94 took first in the B finals of the men's pairs sculls; Cecile U. Tucker '91 took second in the B final of the women's quad sculls; and Pingtjan Thum '00 did not qualify for the finals in several swimming events for Singapore
With only 10.4% of private-sector employees now unionized--down from 16.8% in 1983--the motto of John Sweeney, the federation's new president, is Organize or Die. Some $20 million is earmarked for membership drives, and the tactics are increasingly bareknuckled--as in the effort to drive away New Otani's tour business. The number of organizers deployed by the federation has increased more than tenfold since 1990. And defying labor's stereotype as a bastion of old white males, the new organizers are mostly in their 20s and 30s, mostly female and, like Campos, increasingly from minority groups...
...President an early endorsement and backed it up with a special assessment of union dues to bankroll a blitz of saturation advertising, computer-assisted organizing and massive telemarketing. The enterprise amounts to an all-out war by organized labor to turn back the Republican tide of 1994. John Sweeney, the AFL-CIO's new rabble-rousing president, told TIME that he considers the effort "a matter of life and death...