Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is something different going on here. The boy, Adam Marshall, is black; the girl, "Sam" Whitmore, is white. The Whitmore and Marshall families have been close for three generations, their lives as inextricably entwined as only TV can entwine. It is the sort of interfamily relationship that happens in real life only seldom and in television scarcely ever...
...Davis says the eggs are "potential life" that she may want to use herself or donate to another woman. Her husband maintains they are "property jointly owned" and asserts that he does not want to be forced into fatherhood. Her lawyer, J.G. Christenberry, says that even when a relationship falls apart after a couple has conceived, the father does not have a right to halt the pregnancy...
...Altmann, deputy director of the Sudost Institut in Munich, "it will legitimize political change." The eventual goal is a gradual Finlandization in which certain bloc countries move toward Western-style market economies and adopt the political democratization that goes with them, reducing the adversarial nature of the East-West relationship...
...compulsive womanizer with whom about six of my friends were similarly involved. When it ended, he and I had a long talk, and he was so pompous and full of himself, going on and on about my welfare and his wellbeing. And it all seemed so excessive because our relationship--which didn't even go on long enough to qualify as a casual affair--was just no big deal...
...decision to enter a plea agreement and make a settlement with the government primarily came from the recognition that a former employer, Michael Savaides, had entered into a corrupt and illegal arrangement with William Parkin, a consultant to Teledyne Electronics, and Fred Lackner, with whom the company had no relationship...