Word: inheritance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Judy Granberg was to inherit no financial worries. Her husband, it turned out, had insured himself over the years with six insurance companies for $750,000. Judy quickly shifted into a faster lane. Instead of the family's old Ford Granada, she began driving a gray $50,000 Mercedes. She enrolled her children in the New York Military Academy, a coed private school. The family traveled around the country in high style, staying at hotels and eating in chic restaurants. She changed their name to Brent, sold her home and rented a garden townhouse in Cornwall...
Rosovsky says he may begin examining some of these issues in his last year as dean, but speculates that it is an issue his successor will inherit Graduate education, he says, is another topic that may well be high on the next dean's agenda...
...Lady Bird Johnson in Texas. Four more have been planted in other parts of the White House grounds. Since the old tree has resisted aphids, locusts, Washington's air pollution and even Dutch elm disease, there is great hope that the new trees will inherit its special immunity. One by one the other elms around the White House have succumbed. Eight have died since 1965, and only 31 oldtimers still stand...
...agree on a single candidate but still hoped to do so in the next few days. That would allow the party to avoid a national referendum, in which candidates must mount a costly campaign and expose party policies to public debate. Nevertheless, whoever becomes the new Prime Minister will inherit not only Suzuki's job, but most of the problems that he pledged to solve...
...same fusillade, Hussein's grandfather King Abdullah was shot dead at the prince's side while entering the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. That was a chilling lesson in the dangers of power, and the quirks of fate, for the young man who two years later would inherit the throne...