Some even accuse Liesel of vicariously reliving her mother Irene's acrimonious divorce from her father, Robert.

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One board member, he discovered, was going through an acrimonious divorce--a fact the director had never mentioned.

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During 2010, she had also experienced a second, acrimonious divorce and failed IVF fertility treatment with her new partner.

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Type the right words into Google and up comes a trove of files documenting an acrimonious divorce between two business executives in San Diego.

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By the fall 2008, Mr. Musk was reeling under additional pressure because his marriage had fallen apart, and he was facing a potentially drawn-out and acrimonious divorce.

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The most traumatic has been the acrimonious divorce between Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting, two halves of what was once a single firm, which may be completed next year.

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For example, one might see a patient being treated for depression expressing angry resentment towards his ex-wife following an acrimonious divorce and threatening to "wipe the smile from her face".

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His acrimonious divorce filled the tabloids, while his policies veered between the vindictive (trying to withdraw funding from the Brooklyn Museum of Art because of its allegedly blasphemous exhibits) and the dictatorial (clamping down on jay-walkers).

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She said she failed to give a coherent statement about the NoW phone call at the time of her arrest because she was under stress - in 2010 she was dealing with an acrimonious divorce and a failed IVF procedure with her new partner.

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