Word: duals
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...many dual-career families, both parents are victims of what Williams calls "the great American speedup." The resulting stress falls disproportionately on mothers, who continue to shoulder the majority of child care and housework. When pressures reach the bursting point, married mothers, who earn 69% of what married fathers earn and may face gender-based hurdles to reaching their full professional potential, opt to reduce or eliminate their paid work...
Even families that remain intact feel the financial pinch when one parent cuts back or quits work. Single-earner families with kids have lower needs-adjusted incomes than dual-earner families--almost $7,000 a year lower in 1997-- according to Waite and Nielsen. Proponents of at-home mothering insist, however, that staying home is more affordable than it may appear, since a second wage earner's job is accompanied by costs such as child care, transportation, restaurant meals, work clothes, cleaning bills and a higher income- tax bracket. Sheila Grillo, 34, a former sales rep who stays home with...
This weekend, none of that mattered, as instead the three played the role of inexperienced freshmen competing in their first dual matches at the ECAC Fall tournament...
...misplaced books. The job requires "some heavy lifting," at least two languages, each from a different language group" (Slavic, Romance, etc.), "ability to work independently" and "attention to detail." This is the only job I can imagine that would take someone qualified enough to run a small country with dual national languages and pay them the same as the guy who works in the wrestling office. I wonder, does the library inform applicants that it is a college tradition to take one book in the library and put it somewhere else...
...mind, and it's her that pushes me every day," said Quann. In her head she played out every stroke; she could feel the water in her fingers, taste it on her tongue, see every tile in the 50-m pool. "She's going down," Quann had taunted the dual Olympic champion before the Games - it was, indeed, a narrow vision splendid...