In 1894, George Meany, the first president of the AFL-CIO, was born in New York City.

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This article is by Kevin Meany, the president, chief executive, and founder of BFG Communications, a marketing services firm.

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Mr. Bonner, Mr. Meany and a representative for Stockbridge declined to comment.

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The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany all are spiked with Dickensian melodrama: Complex plots and perilous encounters.

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Leftist activists split with the AFL-CIO in the 1960s over the Vietnam war when its longtime leader, ex-plumber George Meany, sided with the fiercest hawks in the Johnson and Nixon administrations.

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Mr. Bonner, along with the partnership's attorneys and Christopher Meany, a managing partner of Wilson Meany, have traveled to China over the past year to negotiate the deal, according to people familiar with the situation.

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Lennar is joining with Wilson Meany, a San Francisco developer, along with Stockbridge Capital Group, Hillwood, Scala, Estein and Kenwood Investments, a real-estate fund founded by former Democratic lobbyist Darius Anderson, to build the Treasure Island project, which includes up to 8, 000 homes, a 500-room hotel and about 300, 000 square feet of commercial space.

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