Word: son-in-law
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...beads and mirrors. In many subSaharan nations, a favorite scheme is to create a lucrative job in a project for an official's relatives or friends. For years the British-based Lonrho Ltd. trading house kept its Kenyan operations running smoothly with President Jomo Kenyatta's son-in-law as its head. When Kenyatta died in 1978, that connection no longer counted for much. Complains a foreign businessman in Nairobi: "Now there is a whole new set of people to deal with-and they all are asking for far more money...
...Gloucestershire town of Stone St. Martin, where he is engaged to Julia Ferndale, 47, widow of an army officer. The japonica is blooming, the folk politely buzz about Julia's young semicelebrity, and her mother, Mrs. Anstey, reads Dickens and feels vaguely uneasy about her future son-in-law...
Elmer the 57, was born on Riverside, a 25,000-acre ranch in the Smith River Valley of central Montana. His grandfather homesteaded there in 1881. Today his two sons and son-in-law help him and his wife Marie raise his cattle, 2,800 head of Angus and Hereford. But such is the state of ranching economics today that family operations like Riverside are dying. "You have to says in a lot extra of everything these days to make a profit," says Hanson...
...triple murderer go loose just because he wasn't tried fast enough?" Kassab implied that he might have to "take justice into my own hands." Of his tenacity there can be little doubt: after initially rejecting the theory that his "all-American" son-in-law had committed the murders, Kassab soon changed his mind and financed an investigation that brought a reopening of the case. He chased leads, lobbied the Justice Department and visited all 535 members of Congress...
...Meyer's son-in-law Philip Graham took over the paper in 1945 and then slowly went mad. Where Halberstam wallows in the sordid story of Graham's madness, Bray plays the schoolmarm and drops clipped phrases here and there about Graham's "worsening condition" and his trips to institutions. We learn only that Graham killed himself in 1963. If a desire not to dredge up unpleasant memories for the participants in Bray's excuse (and not a very good one) for his truncated discussion of Graham, it still doesn't explain his scanty attention to the players...