Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surplus that will be left of these foods will be sent to starving children in Africa. This will have the extra benefit of making it impossible for your mother to tell you that there are children in Africa wishing fot the chance to eat your brussel sprouts...
...fuel tanks had been filled early to save time. When police shot and killed at least 45 workers during a 1970 shipyard strike, Walesa fully realized the isolation of Polish workers. "We were outside the West's field of interest," he observes. In 1973, after Walesa had married, his mother and stepfather left for the U.S. "The beautiful life only glowed for an instant," writes Walesa. "They returned in lead-lined coffins. America changed nothing...
...additional loan she had taken out. Once the loan was paid off, she decided to take a crack at a modeling career. Living at home, says Knighton, continues to give her security and moral support. "If I had lived away," she says, "I would be miserable still teaching." Her mother concurs, "It's ridiculous for the kids to pay all that money for rent. It makes sense for kids to stay at home." Bradley Kulat, 25, makes about $20,000 a year as an equipment technician in a hospital. That is enough to support a modest household, but he chooses...
Just how long should adult children live with their parents before moving on? Lucille Carlini of Brooklyn returned home with her two daughters after a divorce. That was almost twelve years ago. She is now 37 and her daughters 18 and 16. They still live with Carlini's mother Edie, who has welcomed having three generations in the same house. Still, most psychologists feel lengthy homecomings are a mistake. Offspring, struggling to establish separate identities, can wind up with "a sense of inadequacy, defeat and failure," says Kristine Kratz, a counselor with the Personal Development Institute in Los Angeles...
...having trouble adjusting to the changes. The law is fuzzy on procedures and powers for local bureaucrats, who are finding ways to block the reform. In Moscow, for example, a commission has been appointed to judge the artistic and moral merit of handicrafts proposed for sale. A young Moscow mother of two who paints churches on wooden eggs was turned down because her wares were "of a religious nature." A jeweler's products were rejected because the work, although it sells briskly, was deemed "ugly...