Word: sisterly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...might have been borrowing another $100 just to keep his family going that finally convinced Pravin Bakkamwar to end his life. Or maybe it was knowing that he needed to find a husband for his 18-year-old sister Suwarana, and then pay her dowry and arrange a suitable wedding-responsibilities that would push him further into debt. What his family knows is this: on a sunny morning in central India in late November last year, Pravin, 27, rode his motorbike to a nearby town, bought a few meters of red and yellow nylon cord, returned to his gently sloping...
...amount of help will be enough for widows like Smita, who tried to kill herself when she learned of her husband's suicide (the villagers stopped her). "Just like impossible," says Smita's sister Durga when asked if Smita, who is 23, might ever marry again. "She wants to be independent and get her own job, but in this place it's difficult." Her grieving father-in-law says that Smita was pregnant when Pravin killed himself but lost the baby after her own suicide attempt. When asked what she and Pravin had wanted for the future, Smita's eyes...
...came to the U.S. from Addis Ababa in 1973 to study commercial art at Green Mountain College in Vermont. Four months after she arrived, the Ethiopian government collapsed, and her diplomat father was imprisoned, leaving Aberra without any financial resources. She moved to Boston to live with her half sister and took a job waitressing in a hamburger joint. After she was fired for speaking too softly, Aberra found another gig, as a cashier at a small coffee shop at the Harvard Science Center, but dreamed of becoming a clothing designer. "I always made my own clothes when...
...NASCAR neophytes, it might seem like the ultimate repudiation of a father-son bond, but Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s move surely would have made his father proud. Sitting next to his sister and with other family members in the audience, Earnhardt, Jr., announced Thursday what many in NASCAR circles felt never would be allowed to happen - NASCAR's most popular driver would be leaving the company that bears his father's name, Dale Earnhardt Inc. (DEI), as a driver at the end of the 2007 campaign...
...Going into the final year of his contract with DEI, Earnhardt, working with his sister and business manager Kelley Earnhardt Elledge, said that he wanted at least 51% of the family business to continue his career there. Elledge had given a date of late May for striking a new deal or moving on, but Earnhardt said Thursday that the sides were so far apart that there was no need to wait until then to make the split official...