Word: partnerships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later this summer, the San Francisco Board ofSupervisors passed the Domestic Partnership Law,making it the first major city in the country togive municipal recognition to any gay orheterosexual couple sharing a residence andwishing to declare their relationship. The law,however, is temporarily blocked by a petitioncontaining 27,000 signatures opposing...
...bureaucracy, the nomenklatura. They have coasted for years under the old system, and they dislike Deng's perestroika because it asks them to compete like capitalists, and capitalism has losers. "Keeping their jobs is their No. 1 priority," says Sinclair Choy, a marine engineer from Hong Kong, who in partnership with a coastal town on the mainland runs a fishing boat-repair business. "Order, stability, calm," says Choy. "That's what these Chinese officials want. Anything that threatens to upset the applecart sets them...
...Woods said he is concerned that the decision does not define a domestic partnership clearly enough for unmarried couples--particularly gays and lesbians--to realize it applies to them...
Gumption or no, skeptics perceive an Oedipal element behind the enterprise. After joining the small-paper business launched by his father, the younger Ingersoll clashed with him early and often, tried to break free, then forced him out of the partnership in a financial settlement that the elder Ingersoll considered unfair. Thereafter, father and son spoke infrequently. Ingersoll blames the tension largely on his stepmother; at his father's funeral in 1985, the widow and the namesake son held separate receptions...
...legacy of August is also the ability to overcome disputes and divisions, the ability to find partnership and renounce the idea of taking revenge for the past," he said...