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The CAAB recommended that Laurie Thomas, a former Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia and of the Queensland Art Gallery be appointed Director, but the Prime Minister John Gorton took no action on this recommendation, as he apparently favoured the appointment of James Johnson Sweeney, although he was already 70.
Sweeney had recommended that sources of natural light should not detract from the collections, and so light sources are intended to be indirect.
The Intelligent Whale, an experimental hand-cranked submarine, owned by Oliver Halstead, had been semi-officially successfully tested in 1866 by Thomas W. Sweeney, however, the U. S. Navy did nothing with the ship until October, 1869 when the ship was examined and recommended to Robeson by Cmdrs.

Sweeney and creating
Classical Comics, a UK publisher creating graphic novel adaptations of classical literature, has produced a full colour paperback Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Sweeney Todd ( 176 pages, November 2010, Original Text, ISBN 978-1-906332-79-2, Quick Text, ISBN 978-1-906332-80-8, forthcoming ) with script adaptation by Sean M. Wilson, linework by Declan Shalvey ; colouring by Jason Cardy & Kat Nicholson and lettering by Jim Campbell.
Despite creating a number of hugely popular musicals in the late 1970s and 1980s such as The Phantom of the Opera, Sweeney Todd, and Evita, Prince had his first artistic failure with Stephen Sondheim in 1981 with Merrily We Roll Along.
Sweeney called for a major expansion of the federation's role in organizing by: spending $ 20 million a year on hiring and training thousands of new organizers ; mobilizing over 1, 000 college students for summer organizing ; creating a " Sunbelt Organizing Fund " to sponsor organizing in the South and Southwest ; and establishing a separate Organizing Department.
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.
Sweeney told the press he would initiate an internal discussion of Stern's views after the November 2004 presidential election, with a goal of creating a proposal by July 2005.
Sweeney spent the 1970s in theatre productions, creating and touring shows with Steen, who was a friend from school.

Sweeney and National
Madigan's final design was based on a brief prepared by the National Capital Development Commission ( NCDC ) with input from James Johnson Sweeney and Mollison.
Mollison said in 1989 that " the size and form of the building had been determined between Colin Madigan and J. J. Sweeney, and the National Capital Development Commission.
* Sweeney Ridge, Golden Gate National Recreation Area Portola Discovery Site in San Mateo County, California
In 1993, he played Judge Turpin in the 1993 revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Royal National Theatre.
Sweeney also pushed for mergers with a number of other unions, absorbing the National Association of Government Employees ( NAGE ) and other public employee unions.
In November 2008, Sweeney acknowledged that the company had not complied with rules on Sunday premiums before an intensive campaign by the National Employment Rights Authority in the catering industry.
Topics covered include Jocelyn Elders, the Waco Siege, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Crime Bill of 1996, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, the 1993 bombing of Iraq, Operation Gothic Serpent, the Rwandan Genocide, the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the 1998 bombing of Afghanistan and Sudan, the Impeachment of Bill Clinton, Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed, Stand for Children, Jesse Jackson, the Million Man March, Mumia Abu-Jamal, John Sweeney, the Service Employees International Union, the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, the Worker Rights Consortium, the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Spare Change News, the North American Street Newspaper Association, the National Coalition for the Homeless, anti-globalization, and WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity.
She studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama, and landed her first role with the National Theatre in ' Sweeney Todd '.
Sweeney was selected captain of the Canadian National Team in 1979-84.
In 2002, Sweeney was named the executive producer of the National Film Board's Ontario production centre.
In 2002 Sylvia Sweeney was the Executive Producer of the National Film Board of Canada.
Sweeney was selected captain of the Canadian National Team in 1979-84.
A scheduled R / C event at the 1937 National Aeromodeling Championships attracted six entrants: Patrick Sweeney, Walter Good, Elmer Wasman, Chester Lanzo, Leo Weiss and B. Shiffman, Lanzo winning with the lightest ( 6 pounds ) and simplest model plane, although his flight was rather erratic and lasted only several minutes.
Senator Sweeney also co-sponsored the law providing health benefits to New Jersey National Guard members who serve for 30 days or more on state active duty.
David " Sweeney " Schriner ( November 30, 1911 – July 4, 1990 ) was a Russian-born Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) for the New York Americans and Toronto Maple Leafs.
* 1993 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Royal National Theatre
The Broadway Theatre League brought in National Touring productions of Cats ( musical ), Annie, Evita, Sweeney Todd, and Barnum.

Sweeney and Labor
" AFL-CIO's Sweeney Unperturbed by GOP Campaign Jabs at Labor.
*" Sweeney Unveils Blueprint for Building Labor Movement.
Sweeney was the Executive Director & Chief Counsel of the New York Republican Party from 1992 to 1995, and New York State Commissioner of Labor under Governor George Pataki from 1995 to 1997.
Sweeney merged AIFLD with three other institutes to form the American Center for International Labor Solidarity.
Sweeney sponsored a 2002 law allowing municipalities and other public entities beginning a construction project to enter into a Project Labor Agreement ( PLA ), an agreement that establishes the terms and conditions of employment and prohibits the use of strikes and lockouts, which can save money by reducing cost overruns and work stoppages, and contribute to decreased labor unrest.

Sweeney and Center
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.
* 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.
Antuofermo trained at the Police Athletic Leagues Sweeney Center in Brooklyn, New York.
She returned to Broadway in 1987 to star as nightclub singer Reno Sweeney in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of Cole Porter ’ s Anything Goes.
LuPone has performed in numerous New York concert productions of musicals including Pal Joey with Peter Gallagher and Bebe Neuwirth, Annie Get Your Gun with Peter Gallagher, Sweeney Todd with George Hearn in both New York and San Francisco, Anything Goes with Howard McGillin, Can-Can with Michael Nouri for City Center Encores !, Candide with Kristin Chenoweth, Passion with Michael Cerveris and Audra McDonald and Gypsy with Boyd Gaines and Laura Benanti for City Center Encores !.
* March 14, 1980 – Ex-Congressman Allard Lowenstein is assassinated in his law offices at Rockefeller Center by Dennis Sweeney, a deranged ex-associate.
( 2002 ), and Kismet ( 2006 ), and in the title role in the 2002 Kennedy Center revival of Sweeney Todd, part of Stephen Sondheim's 70th birthday celebration.
On December 29, 2007, at the Manhattan Center, in New York City, Puder made his debut in ROH, at Rising Above, attacking Claudio Castagnoli and aligning himself with Sweet and Sour Inc., led by Larry Sweeney.
* 2003 Sweeney Todd-The Kennedy Center
In response to heightened security warnings around potential targets such as chemical and nuclear plants since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center, Senator Sweeney pushed to require potentially vulnerable facilities to implement security standards and to explore possible safer technologies.
Uggams replaced Patti LuPone as Reno Sweeney in the Lincoln Center revival of Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes on Broadway in March 1989.
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.

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