Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wads of freshly minted bank notes to astonished villagers, and one of his pet schemes is to see that everyone under 45 becomes literate. Typically, however, there is no free choice about it: those who do not go to class are fined or jailed. In 1963 he married a cousin. They have four children...
...Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli buy the Suez Canal, needs no identification. Last week sixth-generation members of one of Europe's oldest and wealthiest families were fighting over the use of their name. Evelyn de Rothschild, 49, chairman of the 176-year-old N.M. Rothschild bank, forced his cousin Jacob, 44, to stop using the family name on the Rothschild Investment Trust, which Jacob has run for ten years...
Disapproving of his cousin's business ways, Evelyn two weeks ago resigned from the board of the Rothschild Investment Trust and invoked a ten-year-old agreement that would force RIT to drop the family's name. Says Evelyn: "I don't want to sound staid and toffee nosed, but in the banking business, a name is terribly important...
...their clients. In cross-examining Weinberg, however, they did succeed in shaking his credibility as a witness by demonstrating that he is a con man with unsurpassed chutzpah. Asked if he swindled an uncle out of $50,000, Weinberg quickly denied it. He then added: "It was a cousin." He admitted he received $3,000 a month from the FBI for his services, plus perquisites like limousines and champagne. He said he had received a $100,000 advance from a publisher for a book about ABSCAM. Weinberg was asked if he had once said in an interview that...
Michael's eldest son Walter, a freckle-faced boy of twelve, was happy in his new life. He and his sister Natalie, 17, became concerned that they might be returned to the Ukraine. On July 14, they took refuge at a cousin's house. "I want to stay here," he later explained through an interpreter in juvenile court. "I have new friends, a nice school, a bicycle I fixed myself. Here is better than my country. I would rather never see my parents than leave Chicago." With that, a seemingly routine runaway case became an international issue. With...