Word: parent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Every parent quietly notes the occasion, but when William Arthur Philip Louis, the future King of England, turned six months old, Mom and Dad invited the press and TV cameras. Inundated during her travels around the country with requests for more baby photos, Diana, Princess of Wales, 21, convinced his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, 56, that in addition to her traditional Christmas TV broadcast, there should be one of Sweet William to satisfy the interest of his future subjects...
...datsun" gets the same neighborly attention as a pastor's wife who plays electronic games rather than attend one more workshop like Christian "marriage enhancement." In true short-story tradition, the insights and epiphanies are spring-loaded. A rock group called the B-52s sounds like "a crazed parent abusing a child, thrashing it senseless." A wife realizes that her husband is afraid of women and feels "so sick and heavy with her power over him that she wants...
...gamble," said Norbert J. Kornyei, director of financial operations at Harvard. "They're betting on the ability to earn more money on the amount that a parent pays up front than the amount of the tuition increase," he added...
Brandeis financial analyst Richard A. Robbins said in a telephone interview this week that the University hopes that the plan, which is geared to help the middle-income parent, will boost enrollment. "If we have a plan that is affordable, we think that people will choose Brandeis," Robbins said...
...beautiful drink--for beautiful people" is being challenged, not by a competitor, but by its own parent firm, Coca-Cola Bottling...