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  Gov. Robert D. Orr, a biography
Robert D. Orr was Indiana’s governor from 1981 to 1989.
Orr oversaw the creation of a utility consumer counselor to represent ratepayers, the overhaul of Indiana's state-run mental hospitals, the professionalization of the State Board of Accounts, the creation of the Department of Environmental Management and the creation of a state-controlled welfare system.
The son of Samuel L. and Louise (Dunkerson) Orr, Robert Dunkerson Orr was born Nov. 17, 1917 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
www.indystar.com /library/factfiles/people/o/orr_robert/orr.html   (652 words)

  
 History of Enfield, Illinois Part 3
Orr -- Robert Orr was born in the Carolinas in 1769.
Robert Orr called "Gransite" by his grandchildren, died in 1846 before the Village of Enfield was laid out, but his children and grandchildren were among the very first to move into town.
Robert Rutledge died in Kentucky and was buried in a corner of the orchard on the farm.
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  Gov. Robert D. Orr, a biography
Robert D. Orr was Indiana’s governor from 1981 to 1989.
Orr oversaw the creation of a utility consumer counselor to represent ratepayers, the overhaul of Indiana's state-run mental hospitals, the professionalization of the State Board of Accounts, the creation of the Department of Environmental Management and the creation of a state-controlled welfare system.
The son of Samuel L. and Louise (Dunkerson) Orr, Robert Dunkerson Orr was born Nov. 17, 1917 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
www2.indystar.com /library/factfiles/people/o/orr_robert/orr.html   (652 words)

  
  Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (Ro-Robert D)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Robert Clive was the principal founder of the British Empire in India.
Robert W Crockett was an Australian cricket umpire.
ROBERT D. Robert D Fulton was an American politician.
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 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Robert Orr, at 86; was a governor of Indiana
Robert Orr, at 86; was a governor of Indiana
Orr, a Republican, spent 16 years in the state's top two offices, serving two terms as lieutenant governor beginning in 1973 and then serving as governor from 1981 to 1989.
Orr was known as a gentleman and for his humility.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/03/13/robert_orr_at_86_was_a_governor_of_indiana?mode=PF   (374 words)

  
 IDS: Former governor remembered by state (Region, 03/12/2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Orr died Wednesday night at the IU Medical Center in Indianapolis, said Mark Lubbers, a former press secretary and top aide to the former Republican governor.
Orr had been admitted to the hospital earlier in the day and was being treated for an apparent blockage in his kidney, but his condition worsened, Lubbers said.
Orr spent 16 years in the state's top two offices, with two terms as lieutenant governor beginning in 1973 and then as governor from 1981 to 1989.
www.idsnews.com /print.php?id=22030   (725 words)

  
 LLU Faculty of Religion news- Feb 17, 2000 TODAY
Robert D. Orr, MD The proposed NIH project would explore the potential for using animal or human stem cells--cells that have the ability to divide for indefinite periods in culture and give rise to specialized cells--for treating diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and juvenile diabetes.
According to Dr. Orr, even the potential good outcome from stem cell research does not justify this immoral means.
Dr. Orr's second objection is that the proposed guidelines lean heavily on the issue of consent from the embryo donor, incorrectly implying that this consent makes the act of embryo destruction morally acceptable.
www.llu.edu /news/today/feb1700/fr.htm   (1011 words)

  
 Robert Orr | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Robert D. Orr, who championed educational reform as governor of Indiana in the 1980s and later served as U.S. ambassador to Singapore, has died, according to a former aide.
Orr had been admitted to the hospital earlier in the day for surgery to repair an apparent blockage in his kidney, but his condition worsened, Lubbers said.
Orr went to Evansville at the end of the war and entered the family business, Orr Iron Co. He was Vanderburgh County Republican chairman and was elected to the state Senate in 1968 before being elected lieutenant governor.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040319/news_1m19orr.html   (391 words)

  
 CBHD: Meet Robert D. Orr
Robert D. Orr, M.D., C.M. Robert D. Orr, M.D., C.M., is Consultant on Clinical Ethics at The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, Clinical Ethicist at Fletcher Allen Health Care and Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.
Orr received his M.D., C.M. from McGill University in 1966, did residency training in family medicine, and then engaged in the private practice of family medicine in Vermont for 18 years where he was named Vermont Family Doctor of the Year in 1989.
In 2000 Dr. Orr returned to Vermont as Director of Ethics at Fletcher Allen Health Care and the University of Vermont College of Medicine, and he continues there as a clinical ethicist.
www.cbhd.org /aboutcbhd/staff/orr.htm   (466 words)

  
 Indiana Governor Robert D. Orr
Robert Orr, Indiana's 45th governor, made education and economic development the cornerstones of his administration.
In 1972, Robert Orr was elected lieutenant governor and served two terms.
Orr was married to the former Joanne (Josie) Wallace.
www.statelib.lib.in.us /www/ihb/govportraits/orr.html   (365 words)

  
 Robert Indiana - Encyclopedia.com
Seaway presents Robert J. Lewis Pacesetter Award to Ports of Indiana Burns Harbor.
ROBERT J. Regulatory Intelligence Data; 8/28/2002; INDSTRY GROUP 47; 421 words;...
Robert Orr, former Indiana governor Republican also served as ambassador to Singapore
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 Herald Bulletin   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When the first histories of Orr and Eisenhower were written, both were somewhat eclipsed by either their predecessors and successors, or in Orr's case, both.
Bob Orr's arguments were comprehensive and daring because, as a politician, he was willing to talk openly about state problems on which no one else was focused.
Orr was the first governor I covered as a political writer in Elkhart back in the mid-1980s.
www.theheraldbulletin.com /story.asp?id=3145   (779 words)

  
 Robert D. Orr, 86, Governor Who Revamped Indiana Schools, Dies   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Orr was admitted to the hospital for surgery because of an apparent kidney blockage, but his condition worsened, Mr.
Orr was born on Nov. 17, 1917, in Ann Arbor, Mich. He graduated from Yale in 1940 and attended Harvard Business School before enlisting in the Army in 1942.
Orr is survived by his wife, the former Mary Kay Davis, whom he married in 2001, and three children from a previous marriage, to Joanne Wallace.
www.nytimes.com /2004/03/12/national/12ORR.html?ex=1394514000&en=565be2d0ec4e4e1c&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND   (472 words)

  
 Ethics & Life’s Ending: An Exchange
Robert D. Orr, M.D. is the Director of Ethics for Fletcher Allen Health Care and Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.
Though beliefs in the sanctity of human life and in the obligation to care for vulnerable individuals are not optional for persons of faith, an assessment of whether or not to use a given technology requires human wisdom and thus entails some discretion.
There is much to agree with in Robert D. Orr’s measured discussion of the moral issues surrounding the use of feeding tubes, there are a few things that seem to me doubtful or in need of clarification, and then there is one major issue that requires greater precision.
www.leaderu.com /ftissues/ft0408/articles/exchange.html   (5709 words)

  
 Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Orr, Thomas (d. 1785)
Burns met Orr, who was studying navigation, when he attended Hugh Rodger's School at Kirkoswald to learn surveying.
Orr worked as a harvest hand at Lochlea in 1780 and 1781.
He went to sea in 1785 and was supposed to have drowned during his first voyage.
www.robertburns.org /encyclopedia/OrrThomasd1785.693.shtml   (298 words)

  
 Robert C. Orr on Rebuilding Iraq - Council on Foreign Relations
Robert C. Orr, the director of the Council on Foreign Relations' Washington program, was a member of a five-person team sent, at the U.S. government's request, on a June 27-July 7 fact-finding mission to Iraq.
The team's report recommended a series of measures to "win the peace." On July 17, 2003, Orr participated in a Council-sponsored conference call to brief editorial-page editors at U.S. newspapers on the trip and the report's conclusions.
This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
www.cfr.org /publication/6201/robert_c_orr_on_rebuilding_iraq.html   (2680 words)

  
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 Blog of Death: Robert D. Orr
Robert Dunkerson Orr, the former governor of Indiana, died on March 10 from complications following kidney surgery.
In his two-term tenure, Orr energized the economy by luring foreign investment to Indiana.
Orr also sat on the steering committee of the Education Commission of the States, and was the only governor asked to participate on U.S. Department of Education Secretary William Bennett's Study Group on Elementary Education.
www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000865.html   (246 words)

  
 George Bush Presidential Library and Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The President today announced his intention to nominate Robert D. Orr to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Singapore.
In 1980 Governor Orr was elected Governor of Indiana, and reelected in 1984.
Governor Orr is the former chairman of the Republican Governors' Association and has served on the National Governors' Association executive committee.
bushlibrary.tamu.edu /research/papers/1989/89051602.html   (135 words)

  
 Robert D. Orr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Dunkerson Orr (November 17, 1917 - March 10, 2004) was an American political leader and Governor of Indiana from 1981 to 1989.
Orr was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan but was raised in Evansville, Indiana.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, rising to the rank of Major.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_D._Orr   (183 words)

  
 The Indiana Law Blog: Farewell, Governor Orr
Robert D. Orr, 1917-2004 His own place in history Hundreds attend memorial service for former Indiana governor.
Don't miss this great Letter to the Editor today by Dr. Woody Myers, Governor Orr's Indiana state health commissioner from 1985 to 1990, describing the leadership Governor Orr displayed in confronting the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.
It was Orr's compassion that set the tone for a nation confronting an epidemic laced with fear.
www.indianalawblog.com /archives/2004/03/farewell_govern.html   (234 words)

  
 John Orr Bed and Breakfast
The John Orr House was built in 1905 by Robert Orr, the father of John Paden Orr for whom the house was named.
When Robert died in 1914, John and Sarah moved into the house to help care for his mother, Mary Paden Orr.
John Orr was a prominent business man in Mercer, in the retail shoe business for twenty-three years and then managing the Orr Insurance Agency for thirty-three years following his father's death.
www.jorrbandb.com /History.htm   (313 words)

  
 UN Chronicle | Conversation with … Robert C. Orr
Robert C. Orr on the UN Management Review Process
Robert C. Orr of the United States was appointed Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Strategic Planning in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General on 6 August 2004.
Hopefully, that will be one of their key decisions in the next several months.
www.un.org /Pubs/chronicle/2006/issue2/0206p01.html   (1460 words)

  
 Brooke Corporation Doubles Quarterly Profits
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Robert D. Orr, Chairman and CEO of Brooke Corporation (Amex: BXX) announces a 108% increase in quarterly earnings to $1,570,000, or $.15 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2004 from $755,000, or $.06 per diluted split adjusted share.
Quarterly revenues increased 59% to $24,414,000 in the second quarter of 2004 from $15,369,000 in the second quarter of 2003.
Orr also noted that earnings for the twelve-month period ending June 30, 2004, were $5,622,000 and that trailing annual earnings per share were approximately $.55 based on the number of diluted outstanding shares as of June 30, 2004.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-29-2004/0002221160&EDATE=   (322 words)

  
 WNDU-TV: News Story: Former Governor Orr dies at 86 - March 11, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Former Indiana Governor Robert Orr is being remembered for his humility and for his efforts to pull the state out of a recession in the 1980s.
Orr died Wednesday night at an Indianapolis hospital.
Former Indiana GOP chairman Gordon Durnil says Orr was gentile and caring, a man who always asked about a person's family.
www.wndu.com /news/032004/news_24475.php?PRINT_VERSION=1   (180 words)

  
 People@AMBI   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Robert D. Orr, M.D. is a professor in the AMBI graduate faculty and teaches the clinical ethics practicum for AMBI's graduate programs.
He is also Director of Clinical Ethics at The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity and Director of Ethics at Fletcher Allen Health Care and the University of Vermont College of Medicine.
He is a member of the Ethics Commission of the Christian Medical and Dental Associations and served as chairman of that commission from 1991-1994.
bioethics.org /institute/faculty/profiles.php?first=Robert&last=Orr   (327 words)

  
 CBHD: Addressing Issues of Moral Complicity - Robert D. Orr
Robert D. Orr, M.D., is Director of Clinical Ethics at The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity and Director of Ethics at Fletcher Allen Health Care and University of Vermont College of Medicine.
Should a mother consent to having her child immunized with a vaccine that was developed many years ago from aborted fetal tissue?
Permission to reprint granted as long as The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity and the web address for this article is referenced.
www.cbhd.org /resources/bioethics/orr_2003-05-23.htm   (1245 words)

  
 Independent Online Edition > Deborah Orr   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Deborah Orr: We blame the poor for 'lack of aspiration' when we should be grateful to them for it
Deborah Orr: Doctors are as much to blame for NHS woes as the government - only they won't admit it
Deborah Orr: The BBC is under fire from all sides.
comment.independent.co.uk /columnists_m_z/deborah_orr   (1404 words)

  
 Brooke Corporation Announces Earnings Increase - 11/13/2003 - insurancenewsnet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Orr also announced a 750% increase in quarterly earnings to $821,890, or $.15 per diluted share, in the third quarter of 2003 from $96,691, or $.01 per diluted share, in the third quarter of 2002.
Orr stated, “Brooke Corporation’s earnings typically depend on the number of acquisitions made by our franchisees because much of our income results from fees associated with these acquisitions.” Orr noted that acquisition activity is announced by Brooke Corporation’s franchise subsidiary, Brooke Franchise Corporation, on a monthly basis.
Orr also noted that annual earnings for the twelve-month period ending September 30, 2003, were $3,823,031 and that trailing twelve months earnings per share were approximately $.71 based on the number of diluted outstanding shares as of September 30, 2003.
www.insurancenewsnet.com /article.asp?a=featured_pr&id=14727   (739 words)

  
 AMA (Virtual Mentor) Clinical Case 1   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Commentaries by William E. Novotny, MD, Ronald M. Perkin, MD, MA and Robert D. Orr, MD Adam Lovell*, an active 2 ½ -year-old boy, was healthy until the day his parents took him to the local emergency department for vomiting and a suspected case of acute gastroenteritis.
Orr RD, Marshall PA, Osborn J. Cross-cultural considerations in clinical ethics consultations.
Robert Orr, MD is director of clinical ethics at the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, in Bannockburn, IL.
www.ama-assn.org /ama/pub/category/print/10811.html   (2741 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Nation / Obituaries in the news   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Orr was the last Republican elected governor in Indiana.
Before being elected governor in 1980, Orr served two terms as Otis Bowen's lieutenant governor beginning in 1973.
As governor, Orr presided over the strengthening of the state's economy following the recession of the early 1980s.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/03/11/obituaries_in_the_news?mode=PF   (665 words)

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