Word: roger
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...Roman Catholic Church, which on the whole has reacted mildly to the growing clamor for more sex education, has been anything but docile about the clinics' birth-control services. Two weeks ago Archbishop Roger Mahony of Los Angeles issued a heated pastoral letter calling for "all those who value the family and have hope for the future of our children" to join him in vigorous protest against a proposal to establish three school-based clinics. In Boston, Bernard Cardinal Law denounced four proposed health clinics that would provide contraceptives in junior and senior high schools. In an 86-page attack...
...Roger Clemens, who won his first 14 decisions this season and wound up with a 24-4 record in leading the Boston Red Sox to their division title, capped his dream year Tuesday by being voted the league's Most Valuable Player Award...
...this year's balloting, Mattingly, the 1985 most valuable player, had 5 first-place votes and 258 points as he failed in a bid to become the first to win the award in consecutive years since the Yankees' Roger Maris...
...There were several outstanding pitchers in the league this year, but only one Roger Clemens," the Boston manager, John McNamara, said...
Financial analysts hailed the move, and even union officials were at least somewhat understanding. Nonetheless, the announcement from General Motors last week sent a powerful shudder of concern through the Midwestern Rustbelt. GM Chairman Roger Smith said that starting next year the giant automaker will begin the largest pruning operation in its 78-year history. As the first stage in that cutback, GM will shut down ten of its plants and partly close another, in Michigan, Illinois, Missouri and Ohio, dismissing no fewer than 29,000 workers over a three-year period. GM billed the action as part...