Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman the Captain loves is dying of cancer in this season. In her eighth decade she has learned to accept life in its small and most cherishable doses: the devotion of her daughter; a few close friends; the animals she hovers over because she realized long ago that she was one of them. Around her country cottage, clouds like barrels rolled in pitch inflate the sky, while at his troubled and uncomfortable distance Captain Midlife stammers consolations wholly unnecessary for such a woman. He beats about preparing for her death. She calmly prepares for Christmas and pokes the fire...
...county executive but typically keeps less than $1,000 in savings. On a recent trip to Santa Fe, she dropped $3,000 on a lithograph and a turquoise necklace. Says Peters, a widow who spends a portion of her income to help support her mother, 67, and daughter, 21: "Having money in the bank doesn't do anything for me. I figure I owe it to myself to enjoy myself...
...1950s on a salary of only $13,000 while living in New York City and rearing two children. When the family moved to Virginia, where living costs were much less, the Goldbergs were able to save nearly half of Barton's take-home pay. Says their daughter Jane Warden, 34: "My parents were very big bargain hunters. My mother would wait and watch for something until it went down, and then she would...
...contrast, the daughter, a part-time clinical social worker, and her husband Richard, 40, a hospital administrator, see no reason to put off life's rewards. The Orlando couple saves almost nothing, despite a household income of more than $100,000. The Wardens plan to take a Utah skiing vacation this winter, on credit, and aim to move up from their $133,000 house to a model that costs $200,000 or more the minute they can afford it. "We're not satisfied just to be comfortable," says Richard. "Compared to our parents, we really live on the edge...
...Soviet human-rights movement, has remained, isolated and in need of surgery he cannot get in the Soviet Union. Soviet authorities point to his once classified work for the Soviet Academy of Sciences 30 years ago as an excuse to prevent him from joining his only relative, a daughter in Colorado...