By the hundreds and thousands, voters helped the midterm election shed its forgotten, stepchild image and produced pivotal results.
Design patents have long been seen as "the red-headed stepchild of the intellectual property world, " according to one attorney.
Still, the company has long been a stepchild of adversity and has endured.
The dependent must be your child, stepchild, adopted child, foster child, brother or sister, or a descendant of one of these.
As I remarked yesterday, it sure seems that the once darling of Wall Street is now the proverbial redheaded stepchild.
And BlackBerry's website Wednesday was dominated with plugs for the Z10, while the Q10, like an embarrassing stepchild, was nowhere to be found.
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To ease concerns that the publishing company is seen as the unwanted stepchild, executives decided it would have a strong balance sheet, with no debt.
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It now appears that the ugly stepchild of Great Recession-era parents Dodd-Frank, namely the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, wants to spank banks where it hurts.
"It's like a stepchild compared with other viruses, " Jansen says.
Today's staggering unemployment isn't the stepchild of the Great Recession.
Back then, it was a bit of a stepchild.
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