Word: inherit
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...Communists sought to change all that in 1949 by freeing women from the household, putting them to work in fields and factories and giving them the right to inherit property. Suddenly a girl could have positive economic value. Still, feudal tradition has resisted change in many regions, and the government's draconian one-child-per-couple population policy, begun in 1979, has inflamed age-old prejudices against females. Rural and minority families routinely lie, cheat or pay fines in order to try a second pregnancy in the hope of having a son. And female infanticide -- plus its modern variation...
...liberal man for his time. He helped out around his various households, mended his own clothes and believed sexual satisfaction was a woman's right. The religion he founded outlawed female infanticide, made the education of girls a sacred duty and established a woman's right to own and inherit property...
Young Americans inherit a revolution that has largely been won. One measure of the success of the women's movement is the ease with which it is taken for granted. Few daughters remember the barriers their mothers faced when applying for scholarships, jobs and loans -- even for a divorce. Today's young adults dismiss old gender stereotypes and limitations. They expect equal opportunities but want more than mere equality. It is their dream that they will be the ones to strike a healthy balance at last between their public and private lives: between the lure of fame and glory...
...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...
...turns out that investigators never really believed the Mob rubout story, on one hand: the murder was too messy, and hit men rarely kill the wife of their target. On the other hand, if the brothers' greed was the motive, they would have had to kill both parents to inherit their $14 million estate. Other pieces soon fell into place: investigators found a screenplay that Erik wrote about a young man who murders his very rich parents for their money. A home- computer disk thought to contain the father's revised will was mysteriously erased. Far from appearing crushed with...