Word: childlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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John Harvard migrated to Massachusetts in 1636, the 29th year of his life. Married but childless, he died of consumption only two years later, leaving half his estate to a newly-founded college. As the Biblical proverb would have it, so long as Harvard lived, he lived alone. But in dying he brought forth great fruit...
...fact, one of the owners of the manuscript rights is Ziegler Professor of Business Administration John W. Pratt, the great-great grandson of Louisa's father Branson Alcott. Louisa died childless...
...satisfaction of Japanese women have greatly increased in recent decades, but this has brought problems of its own, since Japanese men have not adapted their expectations accordingly. Husbands rarely perform family duties, leaving them to their wives. Rather than accept that division of labor, some women prefer to remain childless and unattached. The result is that, on average, women in Japan marry later and bear fewer children than do women in virtually any other country...
...last April 19 has mostly healed. But for those without the advantage of distance--for the families of the 168 people killed and the more than 600 injured; for the thousands of people who actually felt the earth shudder and heard the screams; for the now parentless children and childless parents--the balm of time hardly seems medicine enough...
...Engler was not particularly popular, but he promised to dig a strapped Michigan out of a $1.8 billion deficit without raising taxes. He lost no time starting. Half a year after his election, he shocked observers by eliminating Michigan's general-assistance program for the state's 83,000 childless, able-bodied poor. Then he moved on to civil servants, cutting 20 boards and commissions and 5,000 state jobs...