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...Becoming a Wise Parent for Your Grown Child, warns that "the downside for grown children [who are being funded] is that they don't develop internal coping skills, and so they feel weak and controlled and continue to be dependent." And often greedy and resentful rather than grateful. Jane Nelsen, a California-based therapist and author of Parents Who Love Too Much, observes that the overindulged "tend to want more and more and to think that what you are giving them is a not a gift or a privilege but their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents Who Give Too Much | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...ripe for assassination. The lineup that used to work the count so carefully and nickel-and-dime teams to death is no longer so consistent. Joe Torre cannot throw out Pettite, Clemens or El Duque and always receive a command performance. Their once-mighty bullpen is down to Jeff Nelsen and the great Mariano Rivera...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The "V" Spot: The Thrill of Victory | 10/18/2000 | See Source »

...would tend to diminish the prestige of that bedroom in the White House, which could even add several trailers on its grounds. Then social climbers could claim to have spent a night in the "Lincoln Bedroom" at the White House but not necessarily in the White House. CHARLES F. NELSEN Oakhurst, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 7, 1997 | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...William Nelsen said, "God is wherever people are gathered." The couple spoke the traditional vows, and then the gathering of 100 guests quietly sang America the Beautiful. A deer watched from behind a tree. Afterward, while the bride and bridegroom headed off for a reception in the double garage of her parents' home in Eureka, Flower Girl Elizabeth Browning wandered down to the creek and dropped petals from her bouquet into the water, watching the slow current take them away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Scenes From a Marriage | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

Next day the Baltimore Colts stampeded over the hapless Cleveland Browns. Led by End Bubba Smith, the Colt defense blocked two field-goal attempts, intercepted three passes and smeared Brown Quarterback Bill Nelsen four times. The big difference, though, was Colt Running Back Don Nottingham, a squat (5 ft. 10 in., 210 Ib.) rookie from Kent State who was the 441st of the 442 players picked in last year's pro football draft. Called in to replace injured Norm Bulaich, "Bowling Ball" Nottingham rolled for 92 yds. and two touchdowns as the Colts outclassed the Browns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Biggest Kick | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

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