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  New Romney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New Romney is one of the original Cinque Ports of England and was a crucial part of England's naval defence for much of its history.
New Romney is the main centre of population on the Romney Marsh and most children on the marsh attend the John Southland's Community Comprehensive School between the ages of 11 and 16 (some staying on until 18).
The town of Romney, West Virginia in the United States was named by Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron for the town of New Romney in 1762.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Romney   (476 words)

  
 Romney, West Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Romney holds the title of West Virginia's oldest town, chartered December 23, 1762.
Named for the Cinque Ports city of Romney, Kent, England by Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, the town still bears placenames and symbols from its colonial past such as its Marsham Street, named for Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney.
Romney Presbyterian Church (1860) It was used as a hospital and stable during the Civil War.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romney,_West_Virginia   (1698 words)

  
 Breeds of Livestock - Romney Sheep
The Romney traces its beginning to the marshy area of Kent in England.
Its origin lies with the old, established dual purpose Romney Marsh breed which was improved with Leicester blood in the nineteenth century.
Romney wool has the finest fiber diameter of all the longwool breeds; the spinning count may run from 40 to 48 which is 38.0 to 31.0 microns.
www.ansi.okstate.edu /breeds/sheep/romney   (769 words)

  
 PAC backing Romney distributes cash in key presidential states   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Romney's allies said the donations do not mean the Massachusetts governor is planning a presidential run, but that he is "a rising star in the national Republican Party," PAC director Trent Wisecup said.
Romney's father, George, was governor in Michigan from 1963 to 1969.
Romney is aware and supportive of the PAC but has no say in how it is run, said his communications director, Eric Fehrnstrom.
www.freep.com /news/statewire/sw110984_20050201.htm   (562 words)

  
 Romney decision due soon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Romney, whose father, George Romney, was governor of Michigan, had previously said he would consider running for office in Utah.
Romney and his wife, who wore leather jackets with the Olympic logo, were met by their sons, Josh and Tagg.
Romney, who unsuccessfully challenged Democratic U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in 1994, was in a statistical dead heat in the polls in that race about six weeks before the election, but lost by 17 percentage points.
www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20020318/LN_004.htm   (568 words)

  
 Romney Exhibition
During the 1770s and 1780s, Romney was the leading rival of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, attracting patronage for his skillful combination of elegance and informality, confident draftsmanship and sensuous handling of paint.
Romney was born in 1734 on the Lake District coast of England in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire.
Romney's son, who visited his father at this time, recalled that the cartons were drawn at night, as a form of relaxation from the rigors of portrait painting by day.
www.huntington.org /ArtDiv/romney.html   (1651 words)

  
 Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
Romney joined Bain in 1977, then left in 1984 to become CEO of its venture capital spin-off, Bain Capital, before returning temporarily to right the foundering parent as CEO in the early 1990s.
Romney is courting new corporate sponsors, particularly high-tech companies, to join those big-ticket backers of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics who have returned for 2002.
Romney is currently on leave as CEO of Bain Capital, the firm that has funded winners such as Staples and Domino's Pizza.
www.alumni.hbs.edu /bulletin/1999/october/profiles/romney.html   (489 words)

  
 Mitt Romney
Romney's claim to national fame came in 1999, when an inquiry into corruption found that the two top officials who led Salt Lake City's "bid" for the Olympics had actually paid bribes of more than $1-million to 24 members of the International Olympic Committee.
A multi-millionaire, a Mormon, and the father of five sons, Romney was the Salt Lake City Olympics' savior.
Romney is making preparatory motions to field himself as a Republican presidential candidate after George W. Bush leaves office -- never mind that 17% of Americans would refuse to vote for any Mormon candidate.
www.nndb.com /people/373/000044241   (486 words)

  
 WinterSports2002.com - Call gives Romney headache
Romney, however, insists that he never attempted to coerce Welch into pleading guilty to federal charges stemming from the scandal.
Those involved said Romney was pressured to talk with Welch on the telephone last summer by Boyer Co. President Kem Gardner — friend to both Welch and Romney — and Salt Lake businessman Mickey Gallivan.
In Welch's mind Romney was telling him to plead guilty, erase the possibility of a federal trial during the Olympics and gain $1 million.
deseretnews.com /oly/view/print/0,4060,50000219,00.html   (740 words)

  
 Election 2002:Don't dismiss Romney, gay Republicans say   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Romney won the LCR endorsement primarily based on his support for the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a pro-gay piece of legislation that at the time had little Republican support.
Romney also supports extending health insurance benefits to the domestic partners of state employees-legislation that has passed the Senate three times only to die in the House-but only after fixing the state budget.
Criticism of Romney's support for gay rights has been plentiful but his supporters say some of it, particularly as it relates to his Mormon beliefs, is just plain wrong.
www.baywindows.com /main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/305911.html   (1478 words)

  
 Is Romney ready for the big time? - Politics - MSNBC.com
Romney dismisses the speculation and says he is staying put at the State House, even beyond 2006.
Romney is credited with turning around the troubled Salt Lake Olympics in 1999, which he describes as the high point of his professional career.
Romney left behind the millions he was making at Bain Capital, a successful venture capital and investment company in Massachusetts, for the snowy mountains of Utah.
msnbc.msn.com /id/5831818   (1426 words)

  
 CNN.com - Romney prepares for '08 - Jun 18, 2005
Romney's public exposure was less than two hours at the Marriott Hotel in Pontiac for the 13th annual event sponsored by Rep. Joe Knollenberg.
Although Romney sought no commitments and made no promises of his candidacy, the assumption by everybody here is that he will not seek re-election as governor in 2006.
Romney responded with an agenda of tax reduction and slimmed-down spending and opposition to federally financed embryonic stem cell research and same-sex marriage.
www.cnn.com /2005/POLITICS/06/16/romney   (708 words)

  
 Meet Mitt Romney: The man who would run the Bay State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Romney's father, the late George Romney, was a four-term Michigan governor and a 1968 Republican presidential candidate.
Romney and his wife, Ann, 53, have lived in the affluent Boston suburb of Belmont for three decades, raising a family of five boys, now grown.
Ann Romney has suffered from multiple sclerosis for the past three years and found the mountain air of Utah restorative, but said she fully supports her husband in his gubernatorial bid.
www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20020324/FP_004.htm   (1286 words)

  
 Mitt Romney For Governor: An Independent Forum
Romney had to spend a lot of time refuting the half-truths and lies that O'Brien spouted.
Romney appeared the more aggressive of the two last night and was more focused than he has been in previous encounters.
Romney gave his crispest showing of the four live TV debates last night, going after O'Brien on taxes, bilingual education and the death penalty.
mittromney.blogspot.com /2002_10_01_mittromney_archive.html   (594 words)

  
 Michigan conservative says Mitt Romney is too liberal
Romney has said he personally opposes abortion but also has said abortion should be safe and legal.
Romney has not announced he's running for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination, but he has been making the rounds of states with early primaries such as Michigan and South Carolina.
Romney was the third potential GOP presidential candidate to visit Michigan recently.
www.freep.com /news/statewire/sw113080_20050316.htm   (684 words)

  
 BHL Research Topics: Collapse of Romney's Presidential Campaign   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sometime in 1965, Romney established a small office for himself in Lansing to answer the increasing correspondence he was receiving about national political issues.
Romney Associates was responsible for research, speech writing, press and public relations, scheduling and travel arrangements, and responding to the governor's out-of-state correspondence.
Because of the geographic distance between the two groups and the frequent overlapping of their functions, the Romney campaign was marked by internal conflicts and inefficiency.
www.umich.edu /~bhl/bhl/topics/romney.htm   (461 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Romney may be losing his touch in Mass.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Romney dismisses the heady enthusiasm for his candidacy as hype.
Romney lists his business expertise as an antidote for economic hard times and a looming $1 billion state budget deficit.
Response was even worse to an ad in which Romney and his wife, Ann, offered an earnest description of their first date — interspersed with beefcake shots of Romney in a bathing suit cavorting with his sons on a lake.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2002-10-15-massgov-usat_x.htm   (900 words)

  
 Mitt Romney Rules: An Independent Forum
Mitt Romney led Republicans to their fourth straight gubernatorial victory yesterday, riding a wave of outsider fervor and Olympic flourish to beat Shannon P. O'Brien and the strongest Democratic challenge in a decade.
Romney promised to cross party lines, vowing to work with Democrats to solve the state's gaping, $1.5 billion budget deficit.
Republican Mitt Romney has seized the momentum in the final hours of the gubernatorial race, pulling even with Democrat Shannon O'Brien - who was severely damaged by her final debate performance, a Boston Sunday Herald poll shows.
mittromney.blogspot.com   (847 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Romney speaks out on gay marriage
In his keynote address to a large crowd that paid $100 a plate to hear him speak, Romney spoke of maintaining a strong economy, stem-cell research and gay marriage.
Those couples are now asking state officials to remove the words "mother and father" from the birth certificates and replace the terms with "parent A and parent B," Romney said.
Romney responded by saying how proud he was to have married a beautiful BYU co-ed.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600114928,00.html   (374 words)

  
 Mitt Romney vs. the Boys from Boston
Scion of a prominent family (Romney's father George was president of American Motors Company and later governor of Michigan), Romney enjoyed a spectacularly successful business career as founder and chairman of the highly regarded private equity/venture capital firm Bain Capital.
Romney is careful to stress that he is approaching these ethical matters from a scientific, rather than a theological, vantage point: "When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate.
It is life." Romney is profoundly disturbed by the Stem Cell Institute's plans to create (or clone) life with the clear intent of destroying the cloned organism, even if it does so before that organism becomes visible to the naked eye.
weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/252qhzbc.asp   (590 words)

  
 Kidson, A.: George Romney, 1734-1802.
Romney was the main rival of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough--and for much of his career more fashionable than either.
Romney's chief ambition, however, was to succeed as a history painter, and he made countless drawings for literary and mythological pictures that he never had time to paint.
He wants both to restore the stature of the misunderstood and ignored Romney to his rightful position as a leading British artist of the 18th century and to outline the scope of his achievements.
pup.princeton.edu /titles/7263.html   (516 words)

  
 TheBostonChannel.com - Politics - State, Church Leaders React To Gay Marriage Decision
Travaglini stopped short of celebrating with the gay and lesbian community, but Gov. Mitt Romney disagreed with the decision, saying that marriage should be an institution between just one man and one woman.
Romney said that he will support an amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution that will limit marriage to a man and a woman.
Romney's support for the anti-gay marriage amendment can't be voted on until 2006 at the earliest.
www.thebostonchannel.com /politics/2646128/detail.html   (881 words)

  
 The "M" Word
It was, not surprisingly, far from complimentary: Romney is a conservative Republican and the Globe's opinion pages, are, in the words of their own ombudsperson Christine Chinlund, "liberal leaning." The editorial took issue with Romney's stance against gay marriage.
Romney at that time was embroiled in a mini-controversy regarding his opinion of homosexuality.
Although opposed to gay marriage, Romney had repeatedly insisted that he was opposed to discrimination of any kind due to an individual's sexual orientation.
weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/334vmssg.asp   (565 words)

  
 RomneyWV.com - Gain some insight into Romney WV, and Hampshire County West Virginia.
Romney, West Virginia is situated in the fertile valley of the South Branch of the Potomac River.
In 1762, Romney was incorporated as the Hampshire County seat.
Romney is said to have changed hands 56 times during the war.
www.romneywv.com   (284 words)

  
 Romney News
A woman was left homeless after fire destroyed her trailer at the Buffalo Hollow Trailer Park off state Route 28 three miles north of Romney, according to George Williams, chief of the Romney Volunteer Fire...
ROMNEY, WV- Police in Romney are looking for a 15- year- old missing now for more than 10 days.
Mitt Romney, left, yesterday urged life science and medical device companies to apply for his Jobs Incentive Payment program as a way to stimulate the states economy.
www.topix.net /city/romney-wv   (764 words)

  
 Stones Cry Out: Would Evangelicals Support Mitt Romney?
I posted on his judgment on the embryonic stem cell issue here, and on his call for the death penalty in Massachusetts if the standard of “no doubt” is met, here.
Mark Daniels doesn’t think Romney’s faith will be a problem unless he pushes it too much.
Mitt Romney is a Mormon who seems to be shoring up his conservative credentials for a presidential run.
www.stonescryout.org /archives/2005/05/would_evangelic.html   (673 words)

  
 Gay News From 365Gay.com
Recently he has been traveling around the country speaking to GOP groups in what many believe to be a test for a possible presidential run in 2008.
When same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts last May, Romney invoked a 1913 law prevented town clerks from issuing licenses to couples who do not reside in Massachusetts.
But, despite his opposition to same-sex marriage, Romney is still "too pro gay" for some conservatives.
www.365gay.com /newscon05/03/032105romney.htm   (430 words)

  
 American Romney Breeders Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The American Romney Breeders Association (ARBA), is the registrar for and promoter of Romney sheep in the United States and Canada.
The Romney’s presented in the show were absolutely gorgeous and I thank the juniors for making such a strong show and challenging the adults!
Additional fl and white photos from the printed Romney brochure are from Jane and Kim Caulfield, Morris Culver, John Landers, Al and Lin Schwider, Ron Starz, and the Bend (Oregon) Bulletin.
www.americanromney.org   (826 words)

  
 George Romney (1734 - 1802) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
George Romney was born in Lancashire, son of a cabinetmaker who trained under portrait artist, Christopher Steele.
Romney wished to expand from portraiture into historical painting, a desire that was never fully achieved.
Portrait of a Man George Romney (British, 1734-1802)Oil on canvas; 30 x 24 3/4 in.
wwar.com /masters/r/romney-george.html   (831 words)

  
 Romney 2000 Aragon Farm, Kent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The purpose of this scheme is to improve the quality of the Romney wether lamb in terms of the fleshing, growth rate and leanness.
The original input was of Texel blood and the resultant halfbred females were successively bred back to Romney rams to produce a 7/8 Romney 1/8 Texel sheep.
During our final 2002 ram lamb selection, eight Romney 2000s were selected for breeding against 6 Romneys, and the best two ram lambs were Romney 2000s.
www.aragonfarm.com /Romney2000.html   (269 words)

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