Word: brides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...price of an Emirates bride has increased, the sheikdoms' men have turned to foreign brides, particularly from India, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, who typically settle for dowries of only about $1,000. Such marriages are now thought to account for as many as half of all those in the sheikdoms, raising government fears that the region's Arab identity will be diluted. To lure men away from the non-Arab brides, the government is / considering a national fund to subsidize the dowries of grooms who marry native brides. Some women in the Emirates have another solution: give wives more...
...FIRST GLANCE, The House of the Sports is the stuff of which television mini-series are made: A poor miner from a fallen family longs to marry the eldest daughter of a wealthy senator. But his beautiful bride-to-be dies before the wedding. Disconsole, the miner returns to his family's ancestral home, a once-great plantation which has gone to seed...
While he fought, his new bride stayed home, working in a hospital. Her sister suggested that Agatha, who was both exhausted and bored during her free time, try to write the sort of detective novel they both enjoyed reading. She did, but by the time The Mysterious Affair at Styles appeared in print, the war was over and Agatha had a daughter, and a husband, grounded at last, who seemed chiefly interested in making money and playing golf...
...that conviction has crumbled. In a suit filed last week in New York State Supreme Court, CBS contends that Ziff Corp., the parent company of Ziff- Davis, along with its auditors at Touche Ross, fraudulently misrepresented the company's finances when the deal for the dozen periodicals, including Modern Bride and Stereo Review, was struck. CBS alleges that Ziff Corp. understated costs, perhaps by $4 million, and overstated revenues and operating income, possibly by as much as $40 million. The broadcaster, whose Manhattan office tower is known as Black Rock, seeks an undetermined amount of damages...
Esteban's efforts to please Clara prove disastrous. After their wedding he can think of nothing better to present to his bride than the hide of her beloved dead dog Barrabas, turned into a rug and laid out at the foot of the marriage bed. "His two glass eyes stared up at her with the helpless look that is the specialty of taxidermists." Esteban's insensitiveness toward his wife extends beyond the grave. When Clara dies, the inconsolable widower begins wearing a suede pouch hanging under his shirt. "In it were his wife's false teeth, which he treated...