Word: wife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Danish Banker Thorkild Kristiansen and his wife Jette were amazed to find that food and gasoline cost half as much in the U.S. as back home. "If the dollar continues at its current level," says Kristiansen, "we'll be back next year. Only this time we'll bring our two children...
...visit America, some foreigners say, than to live here. Electrical Engineer Makoto Takayasu, 35, expected to go back to Japan with some savings after working on a research grant at Purdue University. But the decline of the dollar has just about wiped out what he set aside. "My wife is encouraging me to spend every dollar we have before we return to Japan," he laments. "She's not far from right. The dollar is not worth anything any more...
...played in court last week in Fort Worth, Texas. At his side sat Rich ard ("Racehorse") Haynes, chief of the defense team that has so far cost Davis $4 million in more than two years of legal proceedings arising from his pending divorce and the shooting of his estranged wife, her lover, her daughter and a guest. Testifying against Davis was his former employee, burly, baby-faced David McCrory, the man he had allegedly met in the Coo Coo's Famous Hamburger parking lot to arrange the murder of 15 people on a hit list...
Unfortunately, Puzo also eats like he reads. He has attempted to leave 50 excess pounds on fat farms in the U.S. and Europe but the burden always finds its way back home. "My wife tries to feed me salads and my kids wrestle me from the refrigerator door," he says. But in the middle of the night, insomniac Puzo frequently drifts down to the kitchen and prepares his favorite snack: spaghetti smothered in butter sauce...
...other reasons for rage. Both of his books had been commercial flops, and his family began to tire of his ambition and their deprivation. "I came to the point where I was terribly angry at my wife, at my brothers and sisters, at my mother," he remembers, "because nobody was on my side in this struggle. Then I sat down one day and said, why should they care because of my eccentricity? What did it have to do with them? They were perfectly right in the way they felt, and I was perfectly right in the way I felt...