Word: sonly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Collins, 80, made only three annual payments before she needed the long-term-care policy she bought at age 70. She suffers from Alzheimer's and is nursing home-bound. Without insurance her illness "would have completely depleted her savings," says her son Peter Collins. Long-term-care insurance, Peter figures, has saved the family at least $200,000. "We're a 'Thank you, God' story," he says when he thinks about the three payments of $2,500 each that bought this kind of security. "We're making out like bandits...
Jordan's King of nearly a half-century had always been both a fatalist and an optimist. So after six months of unsuccessful treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hussein bin Talal abruptly anointed as successor a little-known son, Abdullah, who promised the failing monarch "to follow in your footsteps...
Even at 37, Abdullah looks almost too young for the job, but outwardly at least he is unmistakably Hussein's son. Like his father, he leaned forward on the edge of his seat as he chatted informally last week with half a dozen journalists, displaying the same self-confidence, modesty and British-accented speech. He parried questions as if he had been doing so all his life, instead of literally for the first time. He has stepped smartly into his new role, and insists that Jordan will not alter significantly. "I have my own areas of interest, the economy, things...
Without his father around for some tutoring, Abdullah will find the going tough as he grapples with Jordan's blighted economy, disenchantment with Israel, and Saddam's dangerous regime. The biggest fear is that in times of trouble the son will lack the authority and skill that enabled his father to straddle the divides...
...then 14, and two of Juan's brothers after inviting them to his hotel room to watch videos. Prosecutors say Hersh used an illegal passport to smuggle Juan into the U.S.; he enrolled the boy in a Boca Raton, Fla., school, telling teachers and neighbors the boy was his son from an old affair. Juan told investigators he and Hersh had sex three times a week, and if he refused, he'd be sent to his room. Child-welfare officials moved in after Hersh's adult son and ex-wife grew suspicious. Juan was placed in foster care...