Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high school yearbook and see a woman who looked like me." On page 15 of the 1952 yearbook, Szymczak's fantasy came true. The smile was the same one Szymczak saw in the mirror; the graduation quote: "I'm just the girl you're looking for." The long search ended with a three-hour call from a pay phone. By the end of the conversation, it was after midnight on the second Sunday in May. Patricia Szymczak smiled and wished her newfound relation a happy Mother...
...suspicion that the G-7 group had lost its clout. Last week the finance ministers made a concerted effort to bring the dollar down by intervening in the currency markets. The U.S. currency fell nearly 5% against the yen and about 4% against the deutsche mark by week's end...
Some adoption professionals are troubled by the aggressive pursuit of birth mothers that open adoption has spawned. Without proper counseling, such arrangements can end grievously. As soon as the transaction is legally binding, charges Los Angeles author and adoption consultant Reuben Pannor, too many adoptive couples leave the birth mother high and dry. They change phone numbers, move away or otherwise discourage further contact. "Until an adoption is finalized, the birth mother is treated royally and seductively," he says. "Then the contact is abruptly broken...
TELEVISION: POSTSEASON BASEBALL. If Vin Scully and Tony Kubek get misty eyed in the late innings this week and next, don't be surprised. NBC's coverage of the 1989 play-offs marks the end of an era. TV's premier baseball network is being sent to the showers. Indeed, network baseball in general is getting a dunking. Next season CBS takes over major-league baseball's broadcast rights (currently divided between NBC and ABC) but will deliver only twelve games, plus the play-offs and the World Series. That means Saturday-afternoon-at-the- ball-park broadcasts (begun...
...Population Registration Act and the move to give blacks voting rights in so-called black homelands rather than in South Africa proper. He has committed what many Afrikaners consider an act of treason by holding discussions with officials of the outlawed African National Congress, which calls for the end of white rule...