My third husband had to be arrested on my complaint for spousal abuse but after two years apart and a year of therapy on his part we reunited.

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The IRS has a take-no-prisoners attitude in its regulations and a tough litigation policy, refusing to be moved by thieving spouses, innocence of wrongdoing and even outright spousal abuse.

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When you show them murders in drug cultivating areas are more than double the national rate, they quickly calculate their personal misery index, including alcoholism, prostitution and spousal abuse.

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Summers volunteered to serve as her thesis adviser, on how economic inequality contributes to spousal abuse, and he promoted a group called Women in Economics and Government that she co-founded.

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Professor David Segal, director of the University of Maryland's Center for Research on Military Organization, said such strains are a key factor in the surge of suicides, spousal abuse and other problems in addition to sexual assault.

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She also endured repeated spousal abuse.

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Thomas Welch, the leader of the bid and organizing committees who resigned after pleading no contest to a spousal-abuse charge in 1997, told the Salt Lake Tribune that he and other boosters did nothing wrong in their pursuit of Olympic glory.

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