Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dowry deaths in Delhi last year, an alarming increase from the 17 reported in 1980. In recent years the ancient Hindu system of dowries and arranged marriages has taken on a gruesome commercial aspect. By custom, a bride's family is obliged to give cash and gifts to the groom in accord with his social standing. A lowly clerk, for instance, might command $5,000, but a physician or engineer $50,000. Fearful of the disgrace attached to unmarried women, a bride's family will often go beyond its means to secure a good home for a daughter. Such tribute...
...difference, I figure, all comes down to this: while the state schools groom and coach their fellowship candidates shamelessly, Harvard's candidates are completely on their...
...Manhattan stockbroker danced around the subject, then he pressed hard. "I said if we don't sign a prenuptial, we can't get married," he recalls. Finally Sarah, an advertising executive, consented, and each hired a lawyer. Keith's attorney drafted the first version, largely to protect money the groom expects to inherit from his family, and Sarah "flipped out," says Keith. "She was almost in tears." It took months before the couple hammered out an agreement that allowed them to keep their appointment at the altar...
Maybe it was the woman who got her head stuck in a dishwasher. Or the groom who fainted dead away at the altar. Or the fat golfer who rolled down a hill after a mighty swing. Whatever did it, TV viewers have suddenly become hooked on watching ordinary people make fools of themselves. And a new prime-time hit is born...