Word: weds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...listmakers wed advanced computer technology to an ever expanding data base to churn out highly specialized rolls of potential customers. They aim to know not only where you are but also who and what you are. By cross-indexing lists obtained from credit agencies, political parties, mail-order companies and other organizations, a direct-mail specialist can merge and compare the data to identify the groups you belong to, the car you drive, the party you vote for, the amount you paid for your house. All this helps direct marketers identify the goods, services and causes that might...
...would rather have been First Lady. Born into a wealthy cattle-ranching family, Violeta Barrios enjoyed a charmed girlhood that included private schooling in Texas. She plunged abruptly into the teeming currents of Latin politics in 1950 when she wed Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, the crusading, ambitious publisher of the daily La Prensa. His opposition to Nicaragua's Somoza family dictatorship frequently landed him in jail. While raising their four children, Violeta also carried food to Pedro's cell and smuggled notes to his confederates...
Four years after Moore's death in 1951, Lewis fell in love with someone young enough to be his daughter. Chicago-born Joy Davidman Gresham, a Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism, had two sons from a failing marriage. When she and Lewis wed -- privately, since Anglican canon law barred his marriage to a divorcee -- he was 58; Joy was 39 and already suffering from the cancer that would kill...
Nearly two-thirds of the poll's 657 randomly selected respondents, who were queried by telephone shortly before Christmas, said they were "very happy" in their marriage. Four of five said they would wed the same person again, given the chance. Three out of four described their spouses as physically attractive. According to the poll, the three key factors in making a marriage happy are communication, cooperation in child rearing and housework and having a romantic image of one's partner. Some 20% or more said they occasionally indulged in such erotic activities as taking showers with their spouses, making...
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