Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bhutto explained that her decision had been based on "religious obligation and family duty," as well as political considerations. "My brothers and my sister had love marriages, so I'm the only one in the family not to have one," she said in an interview with the New York Times. Ordinary Western- style dating had seemed out of the question in Pakistan. "For me, as leader of a Muslim party, it would just not do," she said. After meeting Zardari, she decided that he was "nice and had a sense of humor and seemed to be a tolerant person...
...city also reimbursed Andrea Bolling, who is the sister of City Council President Bruce Bolling and an administrator in the police department, to the tune of $2779 for courses taken at Harvard and Suffolk universities...
...then he'd have to build something bigger to finish paying for this as well as the enlarged cash flow." That pyramid philosophy led Bakker from his first Heritage Village television studio in Charlotte to Heritage USA and, finally, to the 500-room Heritage Grand Hotel and its sister, the unfinished Heritage Towers. Bakker's ultimate fantasy was a $100 million replication of London's Crystal Palace. A painting of that now canceled project still stands forlornly near the gilded piano in the lobby of the Heritage Grand Hotel...
...father, Edward, plummets from history teacher to instructor in driver's ed. When one of his sons drops out of college, that seems reason enough to get out the unseasonable Christmas lights and have a party. The other two boys soon grow uncomfortable in the competitive world, and a sister concludes that her parents and siblings are "like . . . a family of elves . . . If one leaves, none of the rest of us grow up." Wise child. The children's fatal interdependence provides the subject of this piercing first novel. Author Robert Boswell smoothly oscillates from third to first person, giving...
...members have got into the act. His son Sebastian, 31, runs an industrial-design firm, and has created products ranging from baby carriages to hangars. Another son, Jasper, 27, is one of Britain's hottest clothing designers, whose clients include Princess Diana and the Rolling Stones. Sir Terence's sister Priscilla oversees the development of new products for her brother and still finds time to create such things as her own line of pots and pans. Oh, and don't forget Shirley Conran, Sir Terence's former wife. She wrote the steamy best seller Lace and has finished Savages...