Word: guardianship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paintings and inscriptions add up to an incomparable record of the lives and beliefs of people in one of humanity's most ancient civilizations, which influenced the development of modern cultures throughout the world. "We are the guardians of a unique heritage," says the EAO's Ali Hassan. Such guardianship is expensive, though, and calls for far more expertise than any one nation -- especially a developing one -- can hope to muster. Saving ancient sites that are revered around the globe requires global cooperation...
...announced that she and Sharon had been lovers before the accident, the Kowalskis forbade her to visit anymore and eventually moved their daughter to a nursing home 180 miles away. In 1985, after a yearlong legal battle over custody and visitation rights, the court awarded Sharon's father full guardianship. The Kowalskis' lawyer maintains that Thompson's visits left Sharon depressed. Moreover, he argues that Sharon has the mind of a six-year- old and cannot express her wishes reliably. Thompson denies these claims and points to Sharon's typewritten responses to a neutral questioner indicating her desire to return...
...Council, a sort of parliament in exile, finally convened in Amman last week for its annual session. Next to Arafat sat King Hussein of Jordan, who glossed over past differences with the P.L.O. leader to be host to the convention in his capital. "You have defeated attempts to impose guardianship," Hussein told the delegates, "and proved once again that the Palestine Liberation Organization is the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people...
...ladies' man, had an affair with Vanessa years ago. By getting his son, she hopes to lure him back. But Logan, hardly the fatherly type, breezes into town only long enough to tie one on and perhaps sign a new set of papers, beseeched by both sisters for sole guardianship rights...
...Cabot passed on guardianship of Harvard's endowment to his colleague at State Street Management. George Bennett '33. State Street, under whose aegis Cabot manipulated Harvard's money, had enjoyed awesome success--a dollar put in that firm's main mutual fund in 1924 would have grown...