Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...required by law. It revealed that the then mayor paid her husband Jay McMullen, an ex-newspaperman, the extravagant sum of $166,000 for his work in the past year as a consultant to her campaign, while she paid out another $14,175 to her 25-year-old daughter Kathy for secretarial work. There is nothing illegal about such payments, and her campaign was not hurting for funds: Byrne had raised a record $10.6 million. But her campaign committee is currently $270,000 in debt, and Byrne still managed to find a loose $4,066 in its treasury to finance...
...dashboard, rifle shots rang out for what seemed to them to be several minutes. After the firing stopped, a contra peered into the cab. He ordered the three men to get out and, some minutes later, to carry two passengers, an injured woman and her six-month-old daughter, to a nearby house. Once inside, the woman died and the contras abruptly left. As the three shaken survivors hurried to report the attack, behind them ten civilians and one Sandinista soldier lay dead...
When Richard Schnelker packed his eleven-year-old daughter Suzanne off to a computer camp in Georgia's northern mountains, he packed his own bags as well. Blue Ridge CompuCamp was offering parents, for $375 a week, a chance to catch up with their children's knowledge of computers, and the 45-year-old lottery-company executive from Atlanta was determined to do just that. "Suzanne played tennis and hiked," he says. "But I was in that computer center ten hours a day for five days...
...successful relationship is built between two women: Dawn Henley, 18 at the outset, an orphaned college student, and Dr. Lulu Shinefeld, her fortyish psychoanalyst. In classic Freudian fashion, the patient seeks a surrogate parent. The analyst, a divorcee and failed mother, comes to view her patient as a surrogate daughter. Each woman uses the analytic relationship to relive, and make up for, errors that were made in their other lives outside the room with the couch. Ironically but somehow predictably, as Dawn slowly improves, her analyst regresses...
...life were a soap opera, then Nixon would undoubtedly be the inspiring heroine who weathers the storm and stress with a patient smile and unwearying resilience. The daughter of a burial-garments manufacturer in Nashville, Aggie Eckardt yearned to write drama. After she graduated from Northwestern University's School of Speech in 1946, her skeptical father got her an audience with the querulous queen of soap opera, the prolific Irna Phillips, creator of The Guiding Light and Another World. Agnes was hired on the spot to be a soap writer in Chicago...