Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This medal should be split into 90 pieces," Nathan said in a statement. "And one given to each of the bright young people who solved the problems that I threw at them. They did much of the work and they should receive the credit...
...Last year, the burden was on that line too much," Ceglarski said. "If our team plays well together, then I will continue to split them up. Last year, if they didn't have a big game, it made it tough for the rest of the team. I'd like to see more balanced scoring...
Senior Co-Captain Sue Cullinane will anchor a solid defense. Cullinane and junior Bev Stickles, who were paired together last season, will be split up to add experience to both defensive lines...
...deeper change, according to Penelope Leach, author of the popular parenting manual Your Baby and Child, stems from the Industrial Revolution, which forced a split between the home and the workplace. "Home and its surrounding community used to be everybody's operating base, with work and play and family pretty much intermixed," she says. "Now work has moved into geographically separate production centers and takes the form of specialized jobs that cannot be shared, swapped or carried on with a baby strapped to your back." Home has been left an impoverished place, little more than a dormitory, a spot...
...displaced homemakers may be the 58% who are over 65. For many of them, the rules have changed too late in the game. Charlee Lambert, 67, for example, was married to a former Ford Motor Co. executive for 41 years and raised six children before the couple split up. Now she works two full-time jobs and shares her home with her adult daughter, her daughter's boyfriend and her mother; she also takes in boarders. Another divorced woman, who was married 40 years, moved in with her parents -- now in their late 70s -- while she got her footing. Social...