Word: mother-in-law
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...favorite theme of Indian movies: domineering mother vs. misunderstood daughter-in-law. Now the country is going to be treated to a live, political version of the drama as Maneka Gandhi, 26, takes on her illustrious mother-in-law, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Last week the sharp-tongued Maneka, who is the widow of Indira's youngest son and one time heir apparent, Sanjay, announced that she will launch her own political party. What is more, she will oppose Rajiv, Indira's eldest son and current heir apparent, in the next elections for the north Indian parliamentary seat...
...project and the first extensive reform of Harvard's undergraduate program in a generation. After the Core won Faculty approval on May 2, 1978, by a vote of 182-65, Class Day Speaker Rodney Dangerfield declared, "Believe me, the Core Curriculum is nothing compared to my mother-in-law." But most of the verbal theatrics came from Faculty members, who went through three long sessions and numerous proposed amendments before agreeing on the Core as we know it today...
...seem a little eager to come up with human interest stories that show Reagan in a negative light. But the possibilities present themselves so often, it gets hard to avoid capturing some of life's little ironies. Right before Christmas, for example, the President stopped at his mother-in-law's home in Phoenix while on route to Palm Springs. The nation's ninth largest city has no public or private emergency shelters for its estimated 3300 to 6200 homeless people. In July, the city passed an ordinance making it a crime to sleep or lie down on public property...
...price of a new or used car, she was not content to let her fingers do the walking. Instead, Otten went from door to door, besieging relatives, friends and strangers to give her the coupons from their phone books. She even got one from her mother-in-law. When she had collected 91, she offered them to Dealer Scott Nowling after bargaining with him for a 1982 Oldsmobile Firenza, listed...
Alva R. Myrdal, Bok's 80-year-old mother-in-law, shared the award with Mexican Alfonso Garcia Robles for their longtime crusades against nuclear arms...