FIRE TEST RAISES QUESTIONS
      The key answers for the recent exam for Firefighter suggest that the Department of Citywide Services, which conducted the test, either wasn't aiming for precision or wasn't requiring it of the candidates for the job. Out of 195 questions on the two-part test, 88 had more than one acceptable answer.
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DC 37 OUT TO LUNCH
      When a Public Health Sanitarian recently became a target for tabloid ridicule as "dumb" for failing to close a rat-infested Kentucky Fried Chicken/Taco Bell restaurant in Greenwich Village, she was defended not by her union, Local 768 of District Council 37, but by Fitz Reid, an activist in the local who subsequently was elected a vice president to fill a vacancy.
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