Word: knotted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very romantic, demur critics. Fair enough. Shoring up marriages may well - require less infatuation and more responsibility. Church and synagogue programs that encourage engaged couples to discuss with each other, before they tie the knot, who will attend to the children, who will control the bank account and other such pivotal questions are fulfilling a similar societal need. Even better are school programs that teach conflict resolution. Studies have shown that stable and contented couples fight about as often as those in marriages that are failing. However, the happy couples have learned to fight better -- to be issue- rather than...
...efforts to unravel the Gordian knot which now has choked and indeed, threatens to eliminate the "Mother of the art movement" (the Sert Gallery Exhibition Program at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts) within this institution. I have been awakened more clearly than ever before to the absolute necessity for the Le Corbusier edifice at 24 Quincy Street to put its house in order, and for the administration of this institution to sever the outdated, inextricable bonds of budgetary and administrative decision- making which still bind together the two separate entities of the Carpenter Center and the Department...
...Supreme Court tied another knot in its tangled doctrine on church-state relations with a 5-to-4 ruling that permits public school districts to provide sign-language interpreters for deaf students in religious schools...
...Warburg Professor of Economics John Kenneth Galbraith met his wife today, they probably would never have tied the knot...
...Crimson had fought back from a late two-goal deficit in the second half. Junior Emily Buxton cut the lead to one with 4:04 left in the game and freshman Megan Hall knot the game, 10-10, with her tally with...