Word: chipping
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...Chip Edgeworth's father was unhappy about his son's marriage would be an understatement. Chip, who is white, says that when his dad learned he had fallen in love with a black co-worker named Yvette, the elder Edgeworth threw his son out of the house the family owned in Birmingham, Ala., and refused to speak to him. The reaction didn't surprise Chip. "I was raised so I couldn't stand the sight of black people," he confesses. "I was the biggest racist you ever saw." But then he met and fell in love with Yvette, a divorce...
...lines, however, were more sharply drawn for Chip, 34, a machine operator who grew up in a largely segregated community in Birmingham. But spending time with Yvette and her family and friends opened his eyes. "I discovered the real world," he says. "They've got the same bills and problems I do." And although his father still won't talk to him, his mother accepted the marriage even before the couple's daughter Lauren, 7, was born. Still, there are awkward moments, even with the more welcoming in-laws. It's confusing "at Thanksgiving at my [maternal] grandparents' house...
...Before economic reforms began to chip away at the communist system 20 years ago, medical treatment in the mainland?while often rudimentary?was widely available to its all citizens. China's famed "barefoot doctors," usually middle school graduates trained in first aid, hiked through hamlets offering prenatal examinations and setting broken limbs. The service, essentially free, helped to almost eradicate sexually transmitted diseases in China and nearly doubled the country's life expectancy from 35 to 65 between 1949 to the mid-1970s. But in the early 1980s, the mainland began shifting from communism to capitalism, and peasants...
Such big bets on synergy aren't the typical way to provide for the golden years of assistant principals and highway patrol officers. Most state pension funds are staid, blue-chip investors that focus on earning steady returns. But since taking over RSA in the early 1970s, when it was worth $500 million, Bronner, a finance Ph.D., has overseen its growth into a $22.4 billion concern. Under Bronner, RSA has ventured boldly into direct investments intended not only to fund state workers' pensions but also to boost Alabama's lagging economy and image. "I don't want...
...We’re just trying to chip away [at keycard restrictions],” Mahan said. “This is the next logical step...