Word: connely
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Roger Ligon, a maintenance worker in Stamford, Conn., was on trial for manslaughter, charged with killing a man after a parking dispute. He pleaded not guilty, blaming the act on post-traumatic stress disorder -- the psychological residue of his combat experience in Vietnam...
...Pentagon's new image of competence has suffered a bit of a setback. Officials at Electric Boat in Groton, Conn., have discovered that the $1.7 billion SEAWOLF attack submarine being built there is too large for the Thames River. To move the vessel, the Navy will have to dredge a $12 million, eight- mile channel. Some residents contend that the removal of 2.7 million cu. yds. of contaminated sludge will harm the fishing industry, and have called for a full environmental-impact study before the digging begins...
...Federal Government. Burdened by overzealous borrowing, more than 60,000 companies with liabilities totaling a record $64 billion declared bankruptcy last year. The pace has quickened in 1991 as firms with liabilities of $34.6 billion failed in the first four months alone. Last week the city of Bridgeport, Conn. (pop. 142,000), became the largest U.S. municipality ever to declare bankruptcy when it filed for protection from creditors after failing to find a politically acceptable way to close a $12 million budget...
Cambridge is not the only city that has been agitating for money. From Newton, Mass. to New Haven, Conn. to Evanston, Ill., cities have gone looking to universities within their borders to provide much-needed funds in the wake of the recession...
...playing days were interrupted, and then arrested, by a season-ending injury his junior year. In a bizarre precursor to the ill fate his future team, the Crimson, suffers every time it travels to New Haven, Conn., Tomassoni broke his left arm in two places in the Yale Whale...