Word: wedded
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...step away from full citizenship. Last year more than 60,000 foreigners took that route. Convinced that more than a third of the petitions for permanent residency based on marriage are fraudulent, Congress in October enacted an alien-marriage bill to help the INS guard against those who wed simply to become citizens...
...South Asian story: boy meets girl just before the wedding. Boy marries girl whether she wants to or not. Girl loses her identity, her sanity and, sometimes, her life. At age 15, Jasvinder Sanghera was hurtling toward just such a fate. Born of Indian immigrants in the gritty English East Midlands city of Derby, she was about to be wed to a man she had never seen in a place, Punjab, she had never been...
...simply more of them than ever, along with energy-demanding items that didn't exist in 1990, such as flat-panel TVs and DVD recorders. As more and more Japanese stay single and live by themselves, they're not just a disappointment to parents who want to see them wed; they're also jacking up carbon emissions by increasing the overall number of households...
...more than 100 movies, including the Academy Award--winning La Strada and 1965's Doctor Zhivago, and the husband of actress Sophia Loren; in Geneva. Though trained as a lawyer, the movieman clashed several times with the law in his native Italy, most famously when he tried to wed Loren, whom he had met when she was a teenage beauty contestant. The couple first attempted their marriage in 1957, but the bond was annulled because Ponti had previously been married, and divorce was not yet legal in Italy. The two successfully wed in Paris...
...Orfield and Gandara wed last year, and Orfield writes in an e-mail that once they were married and wanted to work together, they were “immediately and seriously contacted by many major universities” and chose UCLA because it extended the best offer. Both received tenure at UCLA...