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...city council vote came after more than an hour of confusing legal discussions, and a heated exchange between Councilor David Wylie, a strong supporter of the measure, and Draper Vice President John F. O'Connor. A large crowd of observes, which spilled over into halls and the upstairs galleries, stayed for the whole discussion, despite the sweltering heat mitigated only by one small clacking electric...
...already risen to pay for Projects 1,2 and 3. Moreover, their utilities will have to pay exceptionally high interest rates to raise capital in the bond market. At the moment, many investors are shunning bonds from the Northwest. "The whole thing is a nightmare," says Paul O'Connor, press secretary to Governor Spellman. "If traders on Wall Street have the choice between something that says Washington on it or something that says Indiana on it, they are going to go for Indiana. We've got a cloud hanging over us." Even the state government is suffering from...
...American high school teacher, a move that entitled him to stay in the U.S. regardless of the outcome of his case. They have a daughter, Sashi, 2. Last October Terry became so impatient with the appeals that she wrote a letter to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor...
Although many observers assumed that O'Connor would advocate abortion rights, partly because she was the first female Justice and partly because of her Arizona votes, there was always an ambiguity in her feelings. She explained her votes in the state senate as being determined by strict adherence to legislative procedure rather than by pro-abortion sympathies. For instance, in 1974 she opposed a University of Arizona stadium bond issue after a rider was attached banning state funding for abortions at the university hospital. Her objection was not to the ban, she later explained...
...Connor's dissent was closely reasoned and forcefully written. To some legal experts, that was more important than her conclusions. In a touchy and highly visible case, O'Connor showed she was not a token woman but a Justice of conviction...