Word: william
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...other business, Councillor Thomas W. Danehy called for a special executive session "to discuss the character and behavior" of Commissioner of Public Works William Sommers. Danehy was advised by the city solicitor, however, that such a session could only be requested after notifying the subject of the inquiry 48 hours in advance...
Some bishops were troubled by the prospect of substitute services. William McManus, a retired Indiana bishop, warned that the strong tradition of Sunday Mass could be undermined "if we bless this monster." Bishop Raymond Lucker of New Ulm, Minn., urged a study of the priest shortage that would face such issues as "Why can't we ordain people other than celibate males?" For the Vatican, however, that is a question not open to discussion...
...William F. McCarthy, a Ropes & Gray attorney who is handling the bankruptcy litigation between Harvard and Lomas, was not available for comment yesterday...
...animal, the transgenic mouse. We should make this our totem. It is relatively clean, easy to carry, and indisputably ours. I can already hear, reverberating in the stadium, a roar that strengthens the mettle of our troops and strikes fear in the heart of our opponents: Go, mice! Professor William Alonso...
Which brings us to our "epitaph." After reading an article that assumes that Romanticism died somewhere in between Woodstock and the Reagan years, and in which my generation is an MBA-armed phalanx of investment banker wanna-bees, and in which the analytical core consists of William Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas and W.B. Yeats, I hope the poet-legislators of the world remain unacknowledged; my epitaph is not their concern. J.D. Connor...