Word: brother-in-law
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Harrington, 44, had been buffeted by crises almost from the day Mayor Bud Clark appointed her. The three-man commission, initiated by Clark, criticized her management style, as well as her insensitivity to the atmosphere of nepotism created by the fact that her brother-in-law and sister held bureau jobs, as did her husband, Officer Bruce Gary Harrington. The commission questioned the friendliness the chief and her husband had shown to a Portland businessman being investigated in a cocaine probe; it recommended a 25-day suspension of Gary Harrington. Penny Harrington, who declared herself "shocked" by the findings...
...Basra, which is just 50 miles from Fao. Defensive earthworks have been built along the road, with machine-gun nests and tank positions placed every 500 yards. The Iraqi brass is determined not to be diverted from retaking the Fao Peninsula. Declares Defense Minister General Adnan Khairallah, brother-in-law of President Saddam Hussein: "I can assure you we will do so with the least possible casualties...
Other officers complain that the chief's brother-in-law and sister hold high positions in the police bureau. One unfairly describes the force as a "family-owned business since...
...ever argue about the relative superiority of their regional kitchens? "That was settled long ago. We decided that the best food is Alsatian," says the husband. Soltner is "bien attache," say relatives, well attached to family, food, and language. "He has never lost this sense of his roots," brother-in-law Pierre notes...
...halt and the door opened, a tall man carrying a shopping bag stepped inside. It was Mikhail Stiglitz, Avital's brother, who is an Israeli army officer. The pilot had radioed ahead that Shcharansky, who was released from the labor camp in a threadbare suit of clothes, badly needed a pair of pants and a belt to hold them up. While the crowd waited, Shcharansky changed into a pair of gray trousers brought by his brother-in-law, then stepped out onto the tarmac...