Word: divorcee
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If you invest in individual stocks, be sure to diversify adequately among the shares of a dozen or so companies in different industries, including some whose fortunes move up and down with the economy (like equipment manufacturers and financial firms) and some that don't (like food- and drugmakers). If...
Grandma now has support from an unlikely quarter--academe. According to a controversial report released by the National Marriage Project, a group committed to "revitalizing marriage," based at Rutgers University in New Jersey, cohabiting couples are more likely to experience a host of domestic problems--including, if they finally get...
Most surprising, perhaps, for many Gen-Xers, who think living together is a prudent rehearsal for "I do," the report contends that cohabitation reduces the likelihood of later wedded bliss. It quotes a 1992 study of 3,300 adults showing that those who had lived with a partner were 46...
Does cohabitation really make divorce more likely? Or are the people who cohabit simply the same sort of people who tend to divorce? A devoutly Roman Catholic couple, for example, might skip living together and go straight into a long-running marriage, while a couple who at the outset are...
As a globally competitive client, I did not appreciate this consultation. Of course, The Harvard College Guide to Consulting had warned me: "As you can imagine, clients don't always want to hear what consultants have to say." I informed Pilate his strategy was inhibiting my global growth. Pilate chortled...