Word: kasser
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While the older Stallings waited a little more than a week to propose to Diane Kasser, the two have celebrated well over 30 anniversaries. Kasser is just as supportive of her son’s decision to get married...
...They want to make the world a better place,” says Kasser, Stallings’ mother...
...Egypt and emerged on the antiquities market in 1983 at a price of $3 million. It was badly damaged and apparently at one point had been torn in half. It is now possessed by a group called the Maecenas Foundation, and in 2004 a Coptic expert named Rodolphe Kasser announced that he was reassembling and translating it. "There are huge holes in it, unfortunately," says Mario Roberty, Maecenas' director. "But I'm astonished at how successful scientists have been in putting things together...
Such cutbacks make sense, says Tim Kasser, a professor of psychology at Knox College in Illinois, who studies materialism and values. For a 2002 paper titled "What Makes for a Merry Christmas?" Kasser interviewed 117 people in Illinois, asking them to weigh eight factors in their holiday experience. "Being close to family and friends" was measured against "practicing my religion," "helping others in need" and "eating and/or drinking well." The two factors most closely tied to holiday happiness: family and religion. The two factors most closely linked to dissatisfaction? Giving and receiving gifts...