Word: split
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Nicaraguans see in her life a reflection of the traumas their country has gone through. Dona Violeta, as she is always called, lost a husband to political violence, and her family was split along political lines: two of her children are ardent Sandinistas and two are just as ardent anti-Sandinistas. Yet through it all, Chamorro has kept her family together. Says Emilio Alvarez, a longtime friend of the Chamorro family's: "If she could reconcile her own family, she could do it for the country as well." Nicaragua remains in severe economic crisis, but so far Chamorro has stymied...
...deeper change, according to Penelope Leach, author of the popular parenting manual Your Baby and Child, stems from the Industrial Revolution, which forced a split between the home and the workplace. "Home and its surrounding community used to be everybody's operating base, with work and play and family pretty much intermixed," she says. "Now work has moved into geographically separate production centers and takes the form of specialized jobs that cannot be shared, swapped or carried on with a baby strapped to your back." Home has been left an impoverished place, little more than a dormitory, a spot...
...displaced homemakers may be the 58% who are over 65. For many of them, the rules have changed too late in the game. Charlee Lambert, 67, for example, was married to a former Ford Motor Co. executive for 41 years and raised six children before the couple split up. Now she works two full-time jobs and shares her home with her adult daughter, her daughter's boyfriend and her mother; she also takes in boarders. Another divorced woman, who was married 40 years, moved in with her parents -- now in their late 70s -- while she got her footing. Social...
Like his opponent, Harshbarger said he supports abortion rights, but the two split on other criminal justice issues. Harshbarger opposed the death penalty, citing his upbringing as the son of a minister. Sawyer favored capital punishment for those who commit first-degree murder. He also said he would support the death penalty for "major drug kingpins...
...Wild Week: How weird was last weekend? Neither Lenkaitis nor Bruins split end Rodd Torbert--who also entered the Brown record books with 156 yards receiving, 11 receptions in the game and 62 receptions in a season--received Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week honors. Not even close...