Sweeney also proposed creating a Center for Strategic Campaigns to coordinate all national contract campaigns ; creating a Strategic Campaign Fund to provide grants to unions in difficult organizing and contract fights ; creating a Strike Support Team of organizers that could be deployed to help support strikes ; and establishing a Pension Investment Clearinghouse to provide information on how pensions are invested and to help mobilize investments in support of organizing.

When Sweeney had first been elected of the AFL-CIO in 1995, he had proposed a constitutional amendment which would bar anyone 70 years of age or older from seeking executive office.

The proposed amendment was never acted on, but Sweeney promised the convention he would not remain in office beyond the age limit he had proposed.

General Walter C. Sweeney, Jr., Commander of Tactical Air Command ( TAC ), proposed an operational plan which called first for an air attack on the surface-to-air missile ( SAM ) sites in the vicinity of known medium range ( MRBM ) and intermediate range ballistics missile ( IRBM ) launchers by eight fighter-bombers per SAM site.

On June 1, 2006, Senator Sweeney and two Assembly Democrats, Paul Moriarty ( D, 4th legislative district ) and Jerry Green ( D, 22nd legislative district ), held a press conference to announce their support for cuts of as much as 15 % to New Jersey state worker salaries and benefits, as part of an effort to avoid a one-point increase in the state's sales tax proposed by Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine that had been supported by unions representing state government workers.

In 2011, Sweeney proposed sweeping reforms to the public employee pension and health benefits systems that he estimates will save taxpayers over $ 120 billion over a 30-year period.

In tune with his many collaborations, an unlikely combination of Sweeney and Neil Diamond was proposed by seminal producer Rick Rubin in 2008 to follow-up Diamond's Rubin-produced 2005 album " 12 Songs.

After leaving the Clinton administration, Sweeney returned to Patagonia as director of both communications and environmental strategies, until 1999, when he began his own business consultancy, with clients including Nike, Ford Motor Company and Hewlett-Packard.

Madeline Amy Sweeney ( December 14, 1966 – September 11, 2001 ), known as Amy Sweeney, was an American flight attendant on board American Airlines Flight 11 which was hijacked and flown deliberately into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, as part of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

On September 11, 2001, Sweeney was asked by American Airlines to take an extra shift, because the other crew member who was assigned to the position was ill.

An attempt at getting the McGees onto television came in September 1959, produced by William Asher for NBC ( and co-sponsored by Singer Corporation and Standard Brands ), with younger actors Bob Sweeney and Cathy Lewis in the roles.

* Madeline Amy Sweeney ( 1966 – 2001 ), flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11 when it was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks ; she was the first person to report the hijacking.

Sweeney made his major league debut on September 14, 1995 as a catcher.

Sweeney was hitting. 347 on September 24 before going 2-for-16 in his final four games.

On September 1, his first day back off the DL, Sweeney pinch-hit in the bottom of the 9th and hit a bloop base hit that broke up Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Scott Baker's no-hitter.

The role of flight attendants received heightened prominence after the September 11 attacks when flight attendants ( such as Sandra W. Bradshaw and CeeCee Lyles of United Airlines Flight 93, Robert Fangman of United Airlines Flight 175, Renee May of American Airlines Flight 77 and Betty Ong and Madeline Amy Sweeney of American Airlines Flight 11 ) actively attempted to protect passengers from assault, and also provided vital information to air traffic controllers on the hijackings.

Sweeney Todd closed in September 2006.

* IGN interview, September 2011-Tim Sweeney talks about the future of gaming

The growing unrest within the AFL-CIO became public when Sweeney announced on September 18, 2003, that he planned to run for another four-year term at the federation convention in the summer of 2005.

Sweeney retired as President of the AFL-CIO on September 16, 2009.

* Ars Technica interview with Tim Sweeney ( September 14, 2008 )

Leonard Joseph “ Len ” Cariou ( born September 30, 1939 ) is a Canadian actor, best known for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd in the original cast of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

In her monologue, Sweeney shared a story of when her mother told her her birthday was really October 10 instead of September 10, and how traumatic it was to discover she was not a winsome Virgo but really a Libra, symbolized as a cosmic scale.

Alison Sweeney ( born Alison Ann Sweeney ; September 19, 1976 ) is an American dramatic actress and reality show host.

Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street began a limited season at the Adelphi from 10 March to 22 September 2012, transferring from the Chichester Festival Theatre, starring Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton.

* Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street ( 10 March 2012 – 22 September 2012 )

Ball opened in a new production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Chichester Festival Theatre for six weeks starting 24 September 2011, alongside Imelda Staunton playing the role of Mrs Lovett.

: San Francisco Giants first baseman-outfielder Mark Sweeney, who spent 2003 and 2004 with the Rockies, said, " You wonder if some people are going along with it just to keep their jobs.

* Three productions, all musicals, have won all " big six " awards for their category: South Pacific ( 1950 awards ), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ( 1979 awards ) and Hairspray ( 2003 awards ); each won the Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book, Best Performance by a Leading Actor, Best Performance by a Leading Actress and Best Direction awards.

Recent productions have included Harbison's The Great Gatsby ( 2000 – 2001 ), Weill's Street Scene ( 2001 – 2002 ), and Floyd's Susannah and Sondheim's Sweeney Todd ( 2002 – 2003 ), and John Adams ' Doctor Atomic directed by Peter Sellars.

On her return, Sweeney reprised her role of Lindsey and remained on the show as a leading character until its demise in 2003.

In 2003, Sweeney returned to the stage in the lead in the world tour of Fosse.

Sweeney then took a regular place on the panel of ITV's relaunched Loose Women from 2003 – 2005, but left to pursue her stage career.

A 2002 episode in which punk singer Chris Sweeney was trained as an orchestral conductor won the Golden Rose of Montreux in 2003 as well as the Press Prize at the same festival.

On April 11, 2003, Sweeney began paying a company called Creative Consulting for fund-raising.

He worked with Tim Burton six times, producing Planet of the Apes ( 2001 ), Big Fish ( 2003 ), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ( 2005 ), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ( 2007 ), Alice in Wonderland ( 2010 ), and Dark Shadows ( 2012 ).

* Sweeney Todd ( 2003 )

In 2003, she performed the role of Mrs Lovett in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd at the Royal Opera House ( the only musical the ROH has ever presented ).

They also produced sets for The Amazing Spider-Man ( the 1970s series ), Tim Burton's Batman, James Bond 007 1960's, Knight Rider, Starsky and Hutch, The Italian Job ( 2003 ), Top Gear, The Sweeney and The Dukes of Hazzard.

In 2003, President Sweeney appointed her to an AFL-CIO task force on organizing.

* 2003 Sweeney Todd-The Kennedy Center

Productions in the first five years of Pappano's tenure ranged from Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk ( 2004 ) to Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd ( 2003 ) starring Thomas Allen and Felicity Palmer.

Sweeney is the author of Father Figures ( 2003 ), a memoir written in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks as tribute to the children who would, as a result, grow up fatherless.

Since 2003, Sweeney has been a lecturer at the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, and since 2004, a faculty lecturer on socially responsible business at the Haas School of Business at his alma mater, UC Berkeley.

In December 2003 the investigation was reopened, led by Detective Superintendent John Sweeney.