Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prosecutors presented 52 witnesses who painted Steven as an improvident drifter whose business failures apparently led him to misappropriate some of his mother's fortune. Only days before the explosions, Margaret Benson asked a family lawyer to investigate. Steven, the prosecutor argued, feared disinheritance. Experts testified that his handprints were found on receipts for a length of 4-in.-diameter pipe ($36.08, including tax) and two pipe endpieces ($28.05 total) of the kind used in the fatal bombs. Steven's sister, her face bearing ugly burn scars from the bombing, told the court that he left the car just before...
...debate has a few overtones of a familiar split in feminism: strongly pro- family women vs. women who sometimes speak of childbearing as a major obstacle to achieving feminist goals. Bertin, the mother of two, once referred to pregnancy and hernias as two temporary disabilities that ought to be covered. She says the CREW brief has "more of a flavor of a desire to glorify / pregnancy," while the NOW and A.C.L.U. briefs have "more of a flavor to make pregnancy not the thing around which women are defined." Says Friedan: "Some people are still busy reversing the feminine mystique, saying...
...their homes that Charef succeeds in creating the most human and moving scenes. A picture of bustling, cheerful life on the surface of dire poverty and sickness invents completely the characters of Madjid's family and makes the audience care about them. Madjid's mother, Maika, bubbles over with the life-force that feeds and clothes her five young children, Madjid and the neighbor's child, as well as taking care of her husband, who has apparently had a stroke that has rendered him helpless. The contrast between Maika's helathy cheer and her husband's thin and trembling weakness...
...identifying number on a recovered silver bar with one listed in the ship's manifest in the Seville archives. But because the cargo was scattered over nine linear miles, it took Fisher until 1985--and a total of 6,500 magnetometer hits--to identify what he calls the "mother lode," the ; main body of the ship's cargo. Even then, retrieving the treasure was difficult. The deeper waters off the Florida Keys are murky, the bottom heavily silted. Again, technology provided the solution. Several years earlier, Feild had devised a huge pair of fittings that resemble and are called mailboxes...
...remotely operated vehicles, which are not only supplementing the work of manned submersibles but in many cases replacing them. ROVs became popular during the 1973 oil crisis, when companies were forced to search for new petroleum reserves beneath the sea. Most are self-propelled. They are connected to the mother ship by a cable, through which they receive electricity and commands from their human pilot and transmit pictures and data. It was an advanced ROV, the Gemini, that played a key role in the recovery of wreckage from the space shuttle Challenger. Designed to operate at depths as great...