`` '90s motto: commit or split'' by Lynn Smith (Los Angeles Times) ============================== Albuquerque Journal, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 8 Feb 1996 p.B11: [NP] Across the country, it's (* becoming clear *) that living together, a lingering artifact of the counter-culture '60s, (* IS BEING VIEWED IN THE COOL LIGHT OF THE '90s *) much like lava lamps and earth shoes. [EP] p.B11: When couples move in together, she says, the housekeeping chores often revert to women. ``(* THEY THINK, `Why should I do that? If I'm going to give up my freedom for a man, I want to be married.'*) '' p.B11: [NP] Now she (* knows *) that what she (* wanted *) was ``somebody who was really responsible, more ambitious, financially secure, somebody (* I could count on to *) make a good (* decision *) with when we go to buy our first home. (* IN THE BACK OF MY MIND, I THOUGHT, what if something happened to me? Would I want this person to be left with three kids?*)'' [EP] =================================== In other articles: p.A10: The inventive gambling proponents who have been so successful in persuading New Mexico Indian tribes to enter this noxious business can (* TURN THEIR HEADS TO *) what might be legal on reservations with horse racing, ... p.A10: (* State Department officials fear *) overloading the circuits on Libya, already subject to lighter U.N. sanctions that the Europeans do observe. (* State WANTS *) the House committee now considering the law to keep Iran, drop Libya.