Word: connor
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...Paul M. Connor of the company's Health, Safety and Toxicology Department said that napthalene, the main ingredient in moth balls, did not cause cancer and that the dump contained a small enough quantity of the chemical so that the only adverse effect might be the odor...
...Youngstown, Ohio, the president of the bishops' conference, has been a strong supporter of such activity; he worked hard but unsuccessfully in the late 1970s to keep open the Youngstown Sheet and Tube mills in his diocese. More recently, Archbishops Bernard Law of Boston and John O'Connor of New York stepped into this year's election campaign by indicating that Catholics should consider a candidate's views on abortion before voting...
...nearly 300 bishops at last week's meeting roundly praised the letter. New York's Archbishop O'Connor said the draft would help "in stirring up a sense of personal and national emergency." Said Archbishop James Hickey of Washington, B.C.: "It challenges all ideologies...
...taken a trip back through time to try to reverse the history of the 21 st century. Seems a man named John Connor is destined to lead the survivors of a nuclear war to victory over the evil machines-if his mother Sarah (Linda Hamilton), a lonely Los Angeles waitress here in 1984, lives long enough to give birth. So the Terminator is out to perform a "retroactive abortion"; and another time traveler, Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), has followed him to save John's prospective mother and terminate the Terminator. Thus begins the deadly game of hide-and-seek...
Ferraro was less successful with the leaders of her own Roman Catholic Church. She was publicly criticized by New York Archbishop John J. O'Connor, among others, for her stance supporting free choice on abortion. Personal acceptance of the church's strict antiabortion teachings was not enough, they said; Ferraro was also obligated to press for their public acceptance. The clerical confrontation, which could not help but cost votes, was all the more galling to Ferraro's staff because it appeared to them to be inspired by the candidate's sex. Says an aide: "Teddy Kennedy had the same position...