Word: briens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Five years ago, when Boston Policeman John O'Brien was rounding the corner of Brighton's Commonwealth Avenue and Washington Street at 10 m.p.h. in broad daylight, he lost control of his police car and struck an elderly woman named Bridget Neville. Six months in the hospital and $32,000 in medical bills later, Neville, now 83, won a belated jury award of $103,253. Fair enough...
...Unless a reluctant Massachusetts state legislature takes action, Neville is likely to end up with far less than $103,253, O'Brien could be driven from his home, and the city of Boston -O'Brien's employer-could get off with a negligible payment. The reason: Massachusetts is one of twelve states still clinging to an antique doctrine of sovereign immunity, which forbids lawsuits against the government without its consent. The doctrine goes back to a medieval notion that "the king can do no wrong," and was pronounced in the U.S. as a "general proposition" by Chief...
Each branch of the University manages its finances individually but the Harvard Corporation may decide to loan the necessary funds to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Thomas O'Brien, acting financial vice president, said yesterday...
...drilling is the work of independent operators Their names-Houston Oil & Minerals Mesa Petroleum; Sanchez-O'Brien and Denver's Davis Oil are some of the "hot" outfits-are unknown to the public. But last year Davis, for example, discovered more onshore gas and oil wells in the U.S. than Exxon. Lately the big firms have begun to drill more too. So far this year Shell has sunk 59 wells in the U.S., compared with only...
...commanding majority of 20 seats in the 148-member Dáil (Parliament). The margin of Fianna Fáil's victory, the biggest landslide in Ireland's history, astounded even its own strategists. Among the coalition members defeated was Scholar-Diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien, the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs...