Word: child
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another washtub houses a series of red, yellow and blue kitchen sponges which float at random in the water. When a child opens the flood gates, the water level begins to rise. The gate-master must determine which way the water is running and how to stop the tub from getting full...
...class room is what Eaton sees as vital to Summer Splash's success. If the children enjoy their visit to the water exhibit, then they will ask to come again. But, Eaton adds, were it not for the cooperation of the surrounding business community and for modern trends in child raising, the exhibit would not have been as successful as it has been...
...minimum wage -- currently $3.35 an hour -- these days bring more than twice that sum. Servers at some Burger King outlets in Massachusetts start at $8 an hour and receive raises of 25 cents an hour for every 90 days they work. Beyond that, they receive $1 an hour toward child care and can buy discount memberships at local health clubs...
...Risk, Amanda Farrell will not make it to puberty. Nothing wrenches so hard as the death of a child, and Hoffman knows just when and where to tug. Like Holleran, Hoffman (The Drowning Season, Fortune's Daughter) is mainstreaming a refined literary talent. Her new novel is structured like a movie, which probably explains why 20th Century-Fox wasted no time buying the film rights...
...Scrunching into a child's chair in an eighth-grade English class, Bennett speaks softly. "You don't want to scare 'em," he explains later. When the pupils' questions become too rote, Bennett teases. "Some kids asked me if the Secret Service was here. 'See that big guy back there?' " he says, pointing to a hulking bodyguard. "If you guys make a move for me, you're in trouble...