Word: parent
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Losing one's temper at times, even unjustly, doesn't make a parent a monster. I'm not necessarily an admirer of Joan Crawford, but my sympathy lies with her for not being able to strike back at her accuser from the grave...
When McDonald's, perhaps seeing the potential of the French market, refused to deliver France, Dayan sued and won the Paris market and a lucrative 30-year license that requires Dayan to return a mere 1 per cent in revenues to the parent company. Some franchises now pay as much as 12 per cent. But unlike McDonald's other franchise owners, Dayan wasn't given access to McDonald's advice and support systems under the agreement. He was to develop the French market on his own. In effect, "He was the Ray Kroc of France," Fred Turner, president and chief...
...said that burnout among teachers "threatens to reach hurricane force if it isn't checked soon." Social workers and nurses burn out from too much association with hopelessness. Police officers burn out. Professional athletes burn out. Students burn out. Executives burn out. Housewives burn out. And, as every parent knows, there usually comes a moment in late afternoon when baby burnout occurs-all of his little circuits overloaded, the child feels too wrought up to fall asleep...
...FAMILY. Republican Senator Roger Jepsen of Iowa has introduced an omnibus "Family Protection Act" that is something of a New Right wish list. Among many other provisions, it would exclude "discipline or corporal punishment methods applied by a parent" from the restrictions of child-abuse laws, deny federal funds to schools that do not allow "parental review of textbooks prior to their use in public school classrooms," prevent any school from using federal money to buy educational materials that present an overly progressive view of "the status role of men and women" and permit any schools receiving federal cash...
...size reputation as an innovator in financial services and electronic banking. And, even though it is only the 77th largest in the U.S., McCoy's bank during the past seven years has ranked among the top four in return on assets. Symbolic of the changes, McCoy renamed the parent bank holding company Banc One (Ohio law does not permit the word bank in the title of a holding company). The 25 affiliates in the state are named Bank One. Says he: "I don't think the best bank in the country has to be in San Francisco...