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The union's president, Danny Donohue, said Mr. [David A. Paterson]'s suggestion was counterproductive. "The governor knows, or should know, that reopening contracts is not acceptable to C.S.E.A.," Mr. Donohue said in a written statement. "Any serious businessperson knows that a contract is a contract. We will fight in an animated and energetic way if somehow health care is being targeted, because lives are at stake here," said Kenneth E. Raske, president of the Greater New York Hospital Association, a group that lobbies on behalf of hospitals. "If everybody's pitching in, then we'll try to pitch in." "Where's the personal income tax? Where's the rainy-day fund? Where's education? What's being done about medical malpractice to lower our cost of business?" Mr. Raske said.
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Clearly, for some time, there's been a problem with a lack of diversity in the Fire Department of the city of New York and everybody recognizes that," [Leroy Comrie] said. "There have been court cases that have shown that New York City's competitive fire exam was designed in a way that discriminated against minority groups. Often the information needed to perform well on the exam had no relation to the job expected to be performed in the field." Comrie went on to mention that, at the moment, the New York City Fire Department is only 11 percent minority, compared with a city where minorities dominate the population (65 percent). "That's been an issue in my short 11 years in the Fire Department," said [John Coombs]. "People will get addresses from cousins, uncles, relatives. They'll use ...
... the Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York had responded, Comrie said that the group...
