By contrast, the young parents, living on only one income, or if the wife has a part-time job, one-and-a-half incomes, of which the take-home portion, after deductions for tax and pension contributions, are economizing, avoiding major purchases, trying to save a little while making ends meet.

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Penny Forsyth, all beaming smiles and perfect hair, offers anecdotes from her time as the wife of one of the UK's most legendary entertainers before her divorce from Bruce Forsyth.

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Mr Hayden is a thoroughbred ideologue: a one-time student radical who tried to change the world with his former wife, Jane Fonda, before settling down to change California as a state senator.

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As for Charles, he draws strength from his wife and son, and is taking life one day at a time.

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Manal, a wife and mother, says she enjoys spending time and money at one of Riyadh's most expensive shopping malls, the Mamlaka.

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After returning to Texas, he, his wife and two daughters moved to Santa Fe, where, over time, he became one of this artistic enclave's best known and most successful gallery owners.

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Startling for the time and place, the Universal School, which he and his wife, Nazeera, started in one room of their small house, was both secular and co-educational.

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