Search Details

Word: margarets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...their daughters' classmates for signs of breast buds--and reassurance that their own girls are perfectly normal. Maybe it's time for Judy Blume to write a sequel to her 1970 classic about training bras and first periods. She could call it Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret's Mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What To Tell Your Daughter | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...those girls who are now old enough to be Margaret's mother, Blume says she didn't give the poor woman much thought when she wrote the book. Thankfully for that generation of girls--and now their daughters--Blume's main concern was Margaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What To Tell Your Daughter | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...Bush's blueprint is the Margaret H. Cone Head Start Center in Dallas, where kindergartners' verbal scores rocketed 20% on standardized exams after the center adopted a language-centered curriculum. But this formula, slowly set in motion by a 1998 federal law, could be difficult to clone nationwide: average per pupil spending for Head Start is slightly more than $5,000, vs. more than $7,000 at the corporate-backed Cone Center. Even if Congress okays the move from HHS to the Education Department (President Jimmy Carter tried - and failed - to do the same), the change of responsibility will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning More, Earlier | 10/29/2000 | See Source »

...Margaret Harlow and her husband own their own tire and service garage and are very active in the Westland business community. They call themselves independent voters, but this year he's voting for Gore because of the vice president's stand on the environment. "Short-term he's bad for the auto business. Long-term he's a vote for my grandchildrens' future." Margaret's a little embarrassed. She's voting for Gore because Bush blinks too much and she doesn't trust him. No need to be embarrassed. That's the same reason the mayor is voting for Gore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ground Zero in the Presidential Battleground | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

...Margaret, a gourmet cook, may prepare a breakfast souffle of salmon, eggs and cheese, served with her special dill sauce, or her original shirred-egg, Parmesan and Portobello-mushroom concoction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: THE OAKS, CHRISTIANSBURG, VA.: Quiet History | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

Previous | 193 | 194 | 195 | 196 | 197 | 198 | 199 | 200 | 201 | 202 | 203 | 204 | 205 | 206 | 207 | 208 | 209 | 210 | 211 | 212 | 213 | Next