Word: moms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact of business in the era of the two-career household: when companies hire employees, families and all of their homelife headaches are taken on as well. If little Suzy goes off to day care with a cold, Dad may fret about it at the office all day. If Mom suddenly has to work late, there may be no one to pick up Suzy and give her dinner. And if Grandma falls and breaks her hip, that budget report due tomorrow just doesn't seem so important anymore...
...much more democratic it would be if a nominee called up to the podium not his grandchildren but, say, his Secretary of State and Attorney General. Leave Dad and Sis and everyone else you call by first name at home. If you must, do like the ballplayers: give Mom a TV wave and get on with the game...
...children, many Americans greeted a bowl of oatmeal with an expression of disgust. "It's good for you," Mom would intone, but who believed her? The yucky greige sludge might be filling, but good for you? Forget it. They sure believe her now. Today cholesterol-conscious consumers are eagerly lapping up not only oatmeal but oat bran and oat muffins and oat cookies -- in fact, just about anything with oats in it. The once reviled grain has suddenly emerged as the hottest health food around. People are sprinkling it on cereal, mixing it with fruit, baking it in cakes, dissolving...
...checkbook, making my own plane reservations." Some students struggle for the first time with managing their money. Others, like Craig Rich, a theater major at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, found that "one of the hardest things was waking up in the morning. You didn't have Mom there banging on the door...
Many students find that they can move away from their parents, but not from their expectations. Although Mom and Dad may have been students during the wild and woolly '60s, they are often no less caught up with achievement than their children. The students are the first to notice the double standard: "I worked and they didn't," says Prudence Cumberbatch, 19, a sophomore at Sarah Lawrence, as she compares her freshman experience with that of her parents. "They partied and had fun and I didn't. And they said, 'Please don't do what...