Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smart politics. "Other rulers in other places have kept the money for themselves and their friends, doling out just enough to keep their populations contained during their reigns," says Jasem Mohammed al-Hussein, a wealthy Kuwaiti businessman. "Our rulers, the Sabahs, have earned our loyalty by providing for our grandchildren. That foresight, I am sure, is one of the reasons why Saddam has failed to find a Kuwaiti quisling to govern Kuwait in his name...
...shadow of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Back in 1929, just a few weeks after the stock-market crash, Herbert Hoover's family was having Christmas Eve dinner when fire broke out in the west wing of the White House. As fire trucks clanged, Lou Hoover gathered her grandchildren and read them Christmas stories to calm their fears...
...real estate baron made a final gesture that will win him friends for years to come. Weinberg, who died last week at 82, willed nearly $1 billion to a family trust to help the poor. The sum represents his entire estate, except for $3 million he left his grandchildren. The trust will distribute up to $45 million a year to the needy as Weinberg dictated: one-quarter to Jewish charities, one-quarter to non-Jewish groups and the rest to organizations that serve the poor, regardless of race or religion...
...pain-killer wears off, the patient wakes. It is not morning in America anymore but a somewhat frayed and bloodshot season. American politics (shortsighted, vicious, stupid) plunges on. The government cannot pay its bills and goes on putting up the great-grandchildren as collateral. Congress and the President perform a dance of breathtaking fecklessness over the federal budget...
Nonetheless, the pressures are such that some frustrated grandparents are closing the door on their hospitality. In inner cities, where a succession of teenage pregnancies in a family can result in grandparents who are as young as their early 30s, many are flatly refusing to care for grandchildren. Thus the burden is sometimes passed along to great-grandparents...