Word: mother-in-law
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...maintained a realistic mentality. “I just went ahead and did my thing, and never went in for the blue suits and little bowties,” says the previous board member of GM, Unocal, and Proctor & Gamble. Whether it was women at parties or a mother-in-law who was “genuinely disturbed” by a daughter-in-law with two kids and a job, “it’s one thing to look back and say ‘didn’t it all work great...
...sense, though, Diana, Princess of Wales, was not gone. The day before she was blessed and buried, her former mother-in-law, Queen Elizabeth II, made a rare, hastily arranged televised statement putting, after days of puzzling silence, the royal seal on the pain that so many ordinary people had already registered so sharply: "No one who knew Diana will ever forget her," the Queen said, looking directly into the camera lens. "Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember...
...have learned so much about my fellow writers' demented parents and deceitful exes that I am certain when this ends none of us can be friends. After we've wasted time on that, Marco gives us a really bad premise, such as an episode in which the mother-in-law comes. We all pretend it's a good idea and spend most of the day figuring out funny stuff that our characters would do with a mother-in-law and whether Bea Arthur or Cloris Leachman would be funnier playing her. Our concepts are so bad that Marco eventually realizes...
...Earlier this month Maine Republican Senator Olympia Snowe sent an angry letter to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services complaining of "inaccurate and misleading" pricing information. When one of her constituents, Caren Reed, signed onto medicare.gov to help her 85-year-old mother-in-law find a plan covering her eight prescription drugs, the website listed Fox Insurance Co.'s as the cheapest, at $2,850 annually for her copays, premiums and coverage gaps. But when Reed phoned the Scottsdale, Arizona company, she says a representative told her the yearly cost would actually...
When my 93-year-oldmother-in-law died several months ago, my husband and I did three things with her personal property. First, we took what we wanted and then hired an estate liquidator for the rest. Finally, we bought a paper shredder for the boxes of stuff that took up most of her basement--old handwritten receipts, meticulous business ledgers, military correspondence, personal (but not too personal) letters and even my mother-in-law's report cards from Brown University (then Pembroke, class...