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There are a psychiatrist, a policeman, a lawyer and an housewife, but there are also their relatives, friends, in poor words there is the LIFE.
There are even instances in which two managers will contrive to hire each other’s relatives to evade nepotism charges.
People who moved in with friends and relatives have become homeless.
Many news stories about female CEOs and other high-achieving women are coded with a set of reliable clichés: they lucked into their new roles (and thus do not deserve them), inherited them from male relatives or spouses (and thus do not really hold the reins of power), or will not be there for long.
In fact, it is likely that the helicopter pilot will hover over friends and relatives when dropping the money.
The CEO hires “yes men,” perhaps old colleagues, friends, or even relatives.
Like many people in rural India, Devi lives in an extended family with other relatives, so she is confident that there would be others to bring up her child if necessary.
Becoming a mother at 70 is more acceptable for someone living in a joint family than it would be for Western couples living in their own home without close relatives or friends nearby.
Afterwards, many of my relatives, prosperous Indian merchants who had been settled in Myanmar for generations, abandoned homes and businesses in order to save their skins as chaos enveloped the city, later renamed Yangon.
Soon, too soon, I wanted myself to be part of that family of word wizards, those secret relatives of mine.
You read the newspapers and talk to friends, colleagues, and relatives.
And the funds that urban workers send to relatives who remain in the agricultural sector have helped to raise their standard of living as well.
In fact, Akihito’s meeting, on his recent visit, with relatives of Japanese soldiers who remained after WWII to start families with Vietnamese women served as a symbol of bilateral reconciliation.
Her grown children, who viewed her body, told relatives that they saw evidence of torture and that she had sustained a severe head wound.
The authorities that arrested Hadjiev last month made no pretense of due process: they offered no arrest warrant, and have repeatedly refused him access to relatives and legal counsel.
Indeed, subsidiaries where managers hold shares through their children and other relatives – say, the huge construction company Stroitransgaz which has billion-dollar contracts with Gazprom – are created regularly and shareholders seem powerless to stop such practices.
As patients, future patients, or relatives, we all have an interest in raising the standards of consent.
By 1998, the GIA’s primary target was not the army, but civilians, rival leaders’ relatives, and FIS strongholds.
And, as with humans who mix only with their close relatives, the political gene pool weakens.
To my surprise, it was not WWII that I learned about; rather, I got my first glimpse into the emotions that my own relatives experienced, as they fought and survived the war.
Relatives can work at jobs which it would be improper or inconvenient for the family's head to be seen doing himself.
Internet telephony allows friends, relatives, and co-workers to interact face to face from halfway around the world, at very modest cost.
In the category of living donations, we first permitted only directed donations by relatives and non-directed donations by non-relatives.
For example, the new Israeli transplant law provides incentives for people to sign a donor card by giving them and their relatives priority on transplant waiting lists.
I knew this would provoke the sympathy of her relatives, and they would scrape together their meager resources to ensure a proper funeral.
Though Mariama’s illness did not move her relatives to action, her death did.
They have the power to direct their firms’ campaign contributions, to offer positions or business to politicians’ relatives or associates (or to politicians upon retirement), and to use their businesses to support issues and causes that politicians seek to advance.
Even funeral directors are facing new risks and challenges, from dealing with overdose victims’ relatives to safe handling of victims’ bodies.
It is no surprise, then, that for the last 400 years Don Quixote and Panza have bred many relatives and successors, including countless buffoonish boss-and-servant couples.
Relatives of senior Chinese officials, including President Xi Jinping, as well as members of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, have been implicated as well.
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