Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times was the fate last season of two of TV's most famous singles from the 1970s. Both Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper returned in new sitcoms. Moore's show, in which she played a single newspaper columnist, was a flop. Harper's, in which she portrayed the mother of three children, was a ratings winner, and will be coming back this season. It joins a thriving bedroom community that includes the returning Family Ties, Growing Pains, Who's the Boss?, Kate & Allie, Webster and Mr. Belvedere. Meanwhile, outside the networks' realm, Beaver and Wally Cleaver are back + -- with...
...center of a fierce and highly publicized dispute over surrogate birth that began when Whitehead decided to keep the child she had agreed to carry for Stern. The case has touched off widespread debate: Is the womb a rentable space? Should the use of a surrogate mother be a legitimate option for couples who cannot have children? Or is it an odious trade in babies? While the Baby M. case is not the first surrogate-parent dispute to end up in the courts, Judge Sorkow's eventual ruling is expected to set a precedent governing the enforceability of such contracts...
...more traditional elections. In Maryland, Mikulski and Chavez are waging tough, no-holds-barred campaigns. Although both women come from ethnic, working-class backgrounds, "we are as different as two people can be," says Chavez, 39, a cool Hispanic American who is married and makes much of being the mother of three sons. Mikulski, 50, is single, a self-styled scrapper with the sturdy perseverance of a tugboat. She sharply turns aside comments that she does not "look senatorial." Says the candidate: "A lot of Americans, black or white or female, are always told that they don't look...
...exactly jump into it, but Michael Reagan is becoming the last of his family to try out an aspect of show biz. His dad Ronald, mother Jane Wyman, stepmother Nancy, sister Maureen, step-siblings Patti Davis and Ron Jr. have all made movies, performed or done TV shows. Now the President's eldest son has made his own screen debut in Cyclone, a sci-fi adventure due out in January. Showing a knack for real-life irony, Reagan, 41, plays a bumbling CIA agent in pursuit of a supersophisticated motorcycle. "I kind of provide some comic relief," says Reagan...
...Nidal, a Palestinian who was the author of last December's Vienna and Rome airport massacres and may also be linked to the Karachi airport attack, concurs. "Syria for us is the mother country," he says. "For 2,000 years the Palestinians have not lived in an independent territory. Palestine of the future must be incorporated within Syrian territory...