Of course, Beauvoir was one-half of a world-famous open marriage, and she was therefore not a model for most American women, even the most frustrated.
In her first broadcast interview about the break-up of her marriage, Ms Pryce, 59, revealed that Mr Huhne told her their marriage was over during the half-time break of a televised World Cup match in June 2010.
Though he's doesn't bear the Tata surname, he's linked to the family through his sister's marriage to Ratan Tata's half-brother Noel Tata, who was considered another contender for the chairman's post.
In the past half century, the median age for first marriage has risen by about six years for both sexes, with grooms taking their first plunge at 28.7 years and brides at 26.5 years.
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Six and a half years after the administration's costly marriage-of-convenience with the Islamabad dictator and overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the Bush Administration stubbornly continues to maintain the fiction that both of these premises are correct.
And that about half the nation is cool with same-sex marriage these days, a percentage that only will grow with time.
However, she remains best known as one half of what is perhaps Britain's most formidable political marriage.
If such souls existed, they might know everything about her: the lie of her marriage, her secret thoughts about Harley, her half-formed plans to get away.
He is survived by his wife of 14 years, Alexia, two ex-wives, three sons from his first marriage, four stepchildren, two sisters, two half brothers and 13 grandchildren.
After steadily rising for five decades, the share of children born to unmarried women crossed a threshold in 2009, when more than half of all births to women under 30 occurred outside of marriage.
This is what is happening in the state of Pennsylvania, as that state is abruptly and suddenly questioning the marriage between Verizon and MIC after only a year and a half after official approval was given to the deal from federal regulators.
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McCune might have remained a footnote, another addition to the long list of humanitarians who, for at least a century, have become involved in Sudan for reasons often half-hidden from themselves, had it not been for her sudden marriage to an African warlord named Riek Machar, or Dr Riek as he was known to his followers.
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Fewer than half of Caribbean families with children are headed by a couple in a formal marriage.
Marriage and divorce rankings were double-weighted, while counseling was given half weight.
The Munster and Lions fly-half said he was "disappointed" by the claim that he has a "troubled marriage".
Those who worry about loving gay relationships diminishing the value of marriage should be a lot more worried by a man who treats it, even half-jokingly, as a means to promote his political career.
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But the year that gay marriage became legal in Massachusetts, the number of couples getting civil unions in Vermont dropped by half.
This is the first marriage for Affleck and the second for Garner, who divorced actor Scott Foley two and a half years after they wed.
Whereas only a decade ago public-opinion polls showed Americans opposing gay marriage by a two-to-one margin, new polls show that slightly more than half of Americans are in favor of it.
Americans are getting married later than ever (the average age of first marriage for men is twenty-eight), and bailing on domestic life with alacrity (half of modern unions are expected to end in divorce).
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