Word: connor
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Charles Stark Draper Laboratories, Cambridge's largest nuclear weapons parts manufacturer with more than $116 million in contracts annually, has staunchly opposed the referendum drive and is one of the first firms to question the measure's constitutionality. Joseph F. O'Connor, vice president for administration at Draper, said last week that a local law which affects national security violates the constitutional provision for "the common defense...
...last week. "There will be no exclusions." He has already shown that he can seek accommodation with the city's conservative business elite by placing many corporate leaders on his transition team. "When the dust settles, Chicago's standing will not be impaired," promises James O'Connor, chairman of Commonwealth Edison and co-chairman of the transition group...
...think the vote to accept the three-and-a-half-year contract is a reflection to the fact that they are in fact, down to their last penny and needed to get back to work Jim O Connor president of UAW local 974 in Peoria said Friday. His local is the largest of 10 UAW locals at Caterpillar plants in Colorado, Illinois, Iowa. Ohio Pennsylvania and Tennessee...
...Supreme Court justice. Resnek doesn't buy that line. "At that level of politics," he says, "no deals are made--at least not with those on the periphery, and she's always been on the periphery." Nevertheless, Heckler did make quite a lot of noise about Sandra Day O'Connor's appointment to the Supreme Court, claiming it was she who'd made the President "premier" to appoint a woman. Whether it was her doing or not, the exchange of one woman justice for the ERA may not have been the best trade--off for American women...
...outbursts in court, Fleming was examined by a psychiatrist, who found her "very incoherent, very angry and very mentally ill." But Fleming asserted that Groucho had been crackers and that she had kept him sane and happy. Celebrities who had known Marx, including George Burns and Carroll O'Connor, supported her version. Family members attacked her. As for Groucho himself, he testified, too, in a way. Jurors watched a videotape of the comic accepting a special 1974 Oscar and thanking Fleming, "who makes my life worth living and understands all my jokes...