Word: swears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Certainly marital therapy has become big business in the past decade or so, though few hard figures are available. Some 4.6 million couples a year visit 50,000 licensed family therapists, up from 1.2 million in 1980. Thousands of couples swear by such programs as PAIRS (Practical Application of Intimate Relationship Skills), the semester-long relationship class offered by the PAIRS Foundation in 50 U.S. cities (as well as 16 other countries), or Retrouvaille, a church-sponsored program in which couples who have weathered their own marital difficulties run weekend seminars for other couples in trouble...
This back-and-forth sniping suggests that the world has grown more complicated than it was when Consumer Reports made its debut almost 59 years ago. Subscribers still swear by it. Cheryll and Tommy Schechtman, both in their early 40s, recently built a new house in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and wanted to upgrade all the major appliances on a $10,000 budget. Says Cheryll: "We're pretty trusting about what Consumer Reports recommends." But the exponential growth of new products threatens to swamp the magazine that was established to rank them for the buying public. Hundreds of new computer...
...contrast to the boy who cried wolf, Harvard fans have reason to listen to the members of the women's basketball team. Said Gelman, "I hope people come out and support us this weekend. We're really something to watch--I swear...
Really, I am. I swear...
...announcer who had criticized him for trying to play for both the Falcons in Miami and the Braves in Pittsburgh on the previous Sunday. "You guys don't know the real Deion," says defensive end Tim Harris. "Deion is good people." By all accounts, he doesn't drink or swear, and he is a devoted son, husband and father: he has a daughter, Diondra, and a son, Deion Jr. Even Holmoe, a Brigham Young graduate who is as straight an arrow as there is in the quiver, can't hide his affection for Sanders. "You can tell a lot about...