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" ... Aunts and uncles may treat us like children, even when we are decades into adulthood. Cousins can make tasteless jokes. Even parents and grandparents might make passive-aggressive comments about our being too slow, difficult to accommodate, or in the way. The more people are involved in holiday get-togethers, the more chance there is of these kinds of things happening. Some of us are well-equipped to roll with the punches, some less so. But all of us at least have in the back of our minds the possibility of awkward or even hostile moments cropping up in a social setting where containing and settling such conflicts is almost impossible. ... "
" ... Mariwala started in the business in 1971, when he sacrificed a chance to go abroad to business school to join his father and uncles at Bombay Oil Industries, the trading firm dealing in spices, spice extracts, chemicals and oil that the family started in 1947. In 1990, Mariwala launched Marico to develop and market Bombay Oil’s brands: Parachute, Saffola and edible oil brand Sweekar, which was sold to U.S. food giant Cargill in 2011. “It took me two to three years to convince the family,” he says. “I assured them that the ownership wouldn’t change but it was more of a management split so that I could take independent decisions.” ... "
" ... Sue was right. Mortgages are sure losers, both as part of a strategy to invest and as a tax gimmick. All of us should carefully consider paying off our existing mortgage as quickly as possible (without becoming too cash poor to cover an emergency) and, thereby, join the roughly 37 percent of American households who are mortgage free. And we should, to the extent possible, ignore the financial advice of our uncles during turkey time. ... "
" ... The child of Chinese immigrants who had arrived in the US for graduate school, King was born and raised in the suburbs of Wisconsin. His uncles and aunts were accomplished businesspeople and scientists, and his parents were hardworking, strict disciplinarians, who expected him to excel academically and to support the family engineering business. Naturally he studied engineering and eventually became a structural engineer working on large-scale commercial buildings like stadiums, hospitals, offices and carparks, then a software company executive for 15 years, so it was never even a consideration for him to become an artist. “For me, art came much later in life,” he admits. “Even after my first exhibition, being called an artist felt awkward. But I’ve been working at this for a few years now. After experiencing how people can be genuinely touched by what I have to convey, and getting an idea of the range of subjects that can be explored, I can finally say that I feel compelled to continue.” ... "
" ... The early success of Earth Rides fulfills a promise Hernandez’s family saw in her early on through difficult circumstances. Originally from Panama, Hernandez’s single mother and family settled in Nashville. She tells of “several uncles” who were murdered, which led her to become familiar with the legal system and her eventual enrollment in law school. ... "