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Even when health concerns don't plague families of multiples, financial and housekeeping woes do. In 1993, Keith and Becki Dilley of Indianapolis, Ind., became parents of healthy sextuplets and were buried under an avalanche of daily feedings and diaper changes. A local developer sold them a new home at cost, but after four years, financial pressures forced them to move to a smaller one. In 1984, William Kienast, the father of New Jersey quintuplets, reacted to similar hardships and mounting financial problems by committing suicide...
...American responses to crime and other threats. A Colorado-based group called Safety for Women and Responsible Motherhood is composed of 1,500 women who want to liberalize Colorado's concealed-weapon law so they can carry handguns more readily. ``We have a growing obligation to protect ourselves,'' says Becki Tschirpke, the group's vice president. At the same time, from the forests of Montana to the orange groves of Florida, local militias have formed to do battle against perceived incursions by the Federal Government into individual rights...
Many interviewed at the polls said they were confused about 1-2-3 and attributed that confusion to a feeling of separation from the city at large. "A lot of Harvard students don't consider themselves to be Cambridge residents," said Becki L. Berner '90, who volunteered for council candidate Kenneth E. Reeves '72 outside the Quincy House polling place...
...shuffle is just beginning. Many Carterites are staying in lobbying and consulting jobs, so there are more Republican buyers than there are Democratic sellers. In addition, the Reagan Administration is taking its time naming a staff. Says Realtor Becki Donatelli: "Most of my clients say, 'I want to buy as soon as I find out what I'm going to be doing.' " One Ford Republican, however, was farsighted. When Carter was elected, he rented out his McLean house and moved back to California. But he put one clause in the lease: the tenant had 30 days...
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