She told me to wait as she continued a vigorous and passionate dialogue with the make-up specialist about getting out of debt.

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Rich had seemed to her such a tower of efficiency and competence, so vigorous and firm a presence that she had always believed, quite unreasonably, that he would survive her.

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Simply stated, she believes it should recapture the strengths of the traditional public school system, incorporate a vigorous common curriculum and renounce many of the theories, practices, policies and programs that have constituted America's major education-reform emphases in recent years.

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His wife Clara, 46, a lawyer who has worked part-time while raising the couple's two children, is ready to increase her billable hours to boost the family income as she and Don begin the final push toward their goal: leaving the workaday world, still youthfully vigorous, to own and operate a bed-and-breakfast in the Berkshires, as well as a 1.7-acre spread for raising ostriches.

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