Word: connors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over the proper role of religion in the 1984 campaign. The issue cropped up early this year with Ronald Reagan's fervent advocacy of school prayer, and erupted more recently in New York with a tense exchange between Governor Mario Cuomo, a Catholic, and Archbishop John O'Connor. Democrat Cuomo accused O'Connor of implicitly advising Catholics to vote against him and other officeholders who accept the church's insistence that abortion is morally wrong but contend that as public officials they have no right to impose that belief on others. O'Connor said...
Moreover, women with political ambitions may not have to worry so much about seeming presumptuous; the uppitiness factor should fade. Maureen O'Connor has served on the San Diego City Council and as Deputy Mayor, Chairwoman of the Local Transit Board and Vice Chairwoman of a California State Housing Finance Agency. She ran for mayor of San Diego last year and lost. "Despite the fact that I was twice as qualified as my opponent," she says, "there were reservations voiced about the capacity of a woman to manage a city of this size effectively. Well, with a woman...
...prevent public broadcasting stations from speaking out. The court threw out a federal law that bars "editorializing" by educational television and radio stations receiving federal money. Justice Brennan, a court liberal writing for an unusual 5-to-4 majority that included Conservatives Lewis Powell and Sandra Day O'Connor, ruled that the federal ban is "directed at a form of speech-namely, the expression of editorial opinion-that lies at the heart of First Amendment protection." Dissenting Justice Stevens found that the prohibition was a reasonable effort to prevent the Government's fiscal power over stations from influencing...
...other purposes, such as land reform, as determined by its legislature. "The people of Hawaii have attempted, much as the settlers of the original 13 colonies did, to reduce the perceived social and economic evils of a land oligopoly traceable to their monarchs," wrote Justice Sandra Day O'Connor...
...sure if there'd be a show without Ted." Shales says. "He's as important to 'Nightline' as Carroll O'Connor was to 'All in the Family,' and the similarities don't end there." Shales refers not to Archie Bunker's bigotry but rather to O'Connor's ego, which, he says, became legendary in television circles. "Ted has an enormous ego It's impossible not to at that level...