Word: parent
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That was no mere melodrama. Last week Don Johnston, chairman of the JWT Group Inc., the parent company of J. Walter Thompson Co., the world's second largest advertising agency after Young & Rubicam, admitted that more than $30 million in phony revenues had turned up in the firm's records. Writing off the losses pushed J. Walter Thompson's 1981 earnings down 43%, to $7.1 million. Moreover, the company also admitted that two clients had been charged for television commercials that were never aired. The agency belatedly returned the money to the two firms...
When the call for Brigadier General José Efraín Ríos Montt went out over Guatemalan radio early last Tuesday, he was in a most unmilitary setting: presiding over a parent-teacher conference at a school run by the Christian Church of the Word, a small charismatic group in Guatemala...
...Eddie Popowski, the Crimson dropped two decisions to the minor-leaguers. On Thursday, the Red Sox bombed the Crimson hurlers for 10 runs and Harvard's lone tally came on a Vinnie Martelli homer. Saturday, in a game played at Chain O'Lakes Park--where the Red Sox' parent club plays its home spring training games--the Red Sox prospects prevailed, 8-4, despite a long home run by normally light-hitting Harvard second baseman Gaylord Lyman...
Defending the measure recently, President Reagan explained that the Government "has no business interjecting itself between parent and child in a family relationship and where it is very definitely a problem of concern to parents who are responsible for the children." What he didn't address is the very real possibility that the new regulation could result in numerous unwanted pregnancies, as well as an infringement of the tight to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution...
...long. To take up the slack, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS's parent organization, last week announced the allocation of $5 million toward a challenge grant intended to attract a matching amount from new subscribers. This will ease the squeeze by a couple of notches while stations pursue traditional forms of PBS cup rattling like phone-in pledge periods, televised auctions and fund-raising galas, like upcoming previews of the film Annie, which will aid more than 125 PBS affiliates. Other stations are more adventurous: North Dakota Public TV is raising money through legalized gambling parlors. Most radical...