Word: partners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After winning his singles match and teaming up with doubles partner Derek Brown to decide Friday's match against Yale, 5-4, freshman Albert Chang again did the honors Saturday. His 6-4, 6-4 win over senior Kevin Wyman at the number four berth clinched the match against the Bruins...
...addicted to overworking," says Nancy Baker-Velasquez, a partner in an insurance brokerage in California, whose husband is a sheriff's deputy on the night shift. "At the same time, you have so many more obligations as a parent now. These days, you have to start brushing their teeth even before they have teeth...
Thus the Potemkin democrats of the islands idolized Jefferson but patterned themselves after the master manipulators of the time. Chief among them: the autocratic American darling, Manuel Quezon, the first President of the Philippines, and his prominent partner, Douglas MacArthur, perhaps the archetypal American for all Filipinos. These influences helped produce the quintessential Philippine politician of the later 20th century: Ferdinand Marcos...
...jurisprudence, contract law, is under attack. Feminists charge that the law tends to uphold agreements concerning the things men produce but ignores the contributions women make. Says Professor Mary Becker of the University of Chicago Law School: "Courts have traditionally refused to enforce bargains between spouses in which one partner agrees to pay the other for women's work -- child rearing, caretaking and other domestic responsibilities...
Later, alluding to charges that his wife had done little work for a salary she was paid by a Fort Worth business partner, Wright said: "My wife's reputation is very precious to me. And I'm damn well, darn well, not going to let that be sacrificed...