Word: sullivans
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...that helped to successfully defend pro-life protesters who had blocked entry to abortion clinics against charges that they had thereby violated the rights of women. "We continue to believe that Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled," stated the brief in the gag-order case, Rust v. Sullivan...
...Some money is generated by their internationally famed skills as wood carvers, but trade is sporadic. "The need for cash for school fees is so urgent," says p.n.g.-based anthropologist Nancy Sullivan, who has consulted on aid projects in the region. "There's no development. Boat fuel is so expensive. They are not poor the way people in Africa are. They have their gardens and the river, but they do not have cash." Exploiting this cash vacuum are some unscrupulous artifact dealers who travel up and down the river, taking advantage of its people's poverty to mine a rich...
...such items. Even if they are not ancient items, however, the bones have to be sourced from somewhere. Eoe says the villagers may have been taking skulls from graves or retouching old ones - a scenario which could have unpleasant implications for those responsible. In traditional society, says anthropologist Nancy Sullivan, it's believed that "if you have done something (wrong), the shame and guilt will make you sick...
...teacher, came with his wife and granddaughter (who insisted I sign her Junie B. Jones book, even though I demurred that I had nothing to do with writing it). Mrs. Donahue, my old doubles partner in the city tennis tournament, dropped by. (I had to sign her book ?Bobby? Sullivan.) Old customers of my dad?s at the Union National Bank and my mom?s at the Jeanne D?Arc Credit Union-unknown to me, but wanting to be remembered to Mom-showed up. High school friends. Strangers. A guy who worked security for the Patriots who never took...
Exactly 230 years later, as paratroopers descended on the Common and a helicopter hovered overhead, veterans and dignitaries, including Undersecretary of the Army Raymond F. DuBois and Cambridge mayor Michael A. Sullivan, delivered celebratory speeches...