Word: nan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Director of Governmental Relations Nan Nixon,who handles much of Harvard's lobbying inWashington, said she had not yet heard of thealcohol-related restrictions. She added, however,that she probably would be working on it today...
...number one, Morrissey split the first four games against Nan Campbell. But Campbell pulled out the final game to give Trinity one of its two hard-fought wins...
...which held a disproportionate 25% of the voting power (though it represents only 4% of the world's Anglicans), worked fervently to promote the women's cause. Dozens of Americans and Canadians refused to celebrate Communion services while in England, where women are not allowed to serve as priests. Nan Peete of Indianapolis became the first female priest to address a Lambeth session and won a standing ovation, from half the audience, for her eloquent words. "In a world that rejected me and denied me my humanity based on my race," said Peete, who is black, "the church...
...million Americans with serious drinking problems, life is a runaway roller coaster that, left untended, inevitably leads to disaster. "It ruins everything that matters to you," says New York Times Reporter Nan Robertson, a recovered alcoholic. "In the end, the bottle is your only friend. Alcoholics would rather do anything than stop drinking." For the vast majority of Americans, the occasional social drink is a harmless affair. For the afflicted, however, the most innocent gathering of family or friends -- a wedding at a suburban country club, a casual gathering on an urban sidewalk -- can turn into a nightmare of temptation...
...trimming his sails, Bork left his liberal critics scurrying to revise their tactics. Said Nan Aron, director of the Alliance for Justice: "He's not coming across as a cool, intellectual thinker but as someone who changes his mind according to which way the wind is blowing." The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights produced a seven-page analysis called Bork v. Bork that declared, "What the New Judge Bork now says differs significantly from the Old Judge Bork on free speech, discrimination on the basis of sex, privacy and contraception...