Word: parent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shouldn't she? Her husband, Gerald (Mark Brazaitis) is a befuddled priest more interested in his historical study of parish life since 1386 than in sex. Her son Rick (Andrew Ott), who has always been afraid of women, is now a member of a London sect devoted to parent hatred, which doesn't make her feel any better. Aside from the uptight Gerald, her only companion is her antagonistic sister-in-law, an incompetent Cornish cook with a reincarnation fetish...
...Atlanta a mother beats her three children -- ages twelve, ten and eight -- with a rolling pin until they are black and blue. In Richmond a man forces his nephew to stand at attention and circles the boy while spitting on him. During a parent-teacher conference in Detroit, a woman grabs her twelve-year- old son, hits him in the face until he bleeds, then punches him in the ribs and walks out of the room. What did these children do to earn such treatment? They brought home report cards with poor grades...
...factor. If both mother and father are working to make ends meet, as is the case in 57% of U.S. families, someone still has to find the time to make lunches and pediatrician appointments, shop, cook, fix the washer, do the laundry, take the children to choir practice. Single-parent households are squeezed even more...
...addicted to overworking," says Nancy Baker-Velasquez, a partner in an insurance brokerage in California, whose husband is a sheriff's deputy on the night shift. "At the same time, you have so many more obligations as a parent now. These days, you have to start brushing their teeth even before they have teeth...
...carrier, Eastern's employees (30%) and other new stockholders (40%). Ueberroth's core group of investors will put up only $200 million in cash. The new company will cover the remaining $264 million of the purchase price by forgiving $185 million in debt that the parent company, Texas Air, currently owes to Eastern and by handing over to Texas Air $79 million in Eastern assets. Those properties include Eastern's profitable New York-Montreal route, one airport gate at New York's La Guardia Airport and eight pairs of takeoff-and-landing slots at U.S. and Canadian airports...