Word: karen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dierdre's only grandchild Paul earns $16,000 a year working at a lumberyard in Portland, Ore. His wife Karen brings in an additional $6,000 as a part-time secretary. Since they cannot afford a house, they rent a two-bedroom apartment for $500 a month, where they raise their three-year-old daughter. They too have a ritual. Every two weeks, when they deposit their paychecks, they agonize over the 7% deduction for Social Security tax and wonder if they will ever see that money again -- unless, of course, they visit Grandma. "This whole system just beats...
...restaurants, shops and theaters in Westwood Village, on Los Angeles' affluent West Side, seems a world away from the mean streets of South Central Los Angeles, where gang warfare took more than 100 innocent lives last year. But the ghetto violence occasionally spills beyond its borders. Last month Karen Toshima, a 27-year-old graphic artist, was caught in * the cross fire of rival drug gangs and died on the sidewalk outside a fancy restaurant. The Los Angeles establishment reacted with horror. Newspapers and television headlined the story for days. Police patrols in Westwood tripled, and the L.A.P.D. assigned...
...Crimson (17-3, 8-0 Ivy) limited Karen Walker, Cornell's leading scorer, to only eight points in the game, thanks to the defensive efforts of Tri-Captain Sharon Hayes...
...government's Export Credits Guarantee Department lessons on how to be nice to their customers by using, among other things, a pleasant tone of voice and careful choice of words. "We don't give smile training, or teach people how to say 'Have a nice day!' " says Consultant Karen Dunn...
Harvard needed the co-captain on the ice, so she double-shifted with Lind and usual right-wing Julia Trotman for the next minute and a half, then with Karen Carney and Christine Burns...