Word: parent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such spin-offs from the parent dictionary are, for the moment, purely speculative. Similarly, it will be at least 18 months before anyone can buy the OED2 in computer form. A laser-disc version of the first OED, however, with software less powerful than the newest Waterloo innovations, has been commercially available for the past year...
...Parents of children enrolled in the Morse Cambridge School also testified that the school's textbooks were dated. One parent read from a social studies book--currently in use--which urged students to prepare themselves for a time when people will walk on the moon...
...Another parent displayed currently used 30-year-old chairs with broken seats and worn down legs...
...hands, used by them to point with pride to particular stories and introduce you to the people who created them. Almost never is there any need to talk about the extended family of other magazines and the book, video and cable enterprises that make up the whole of the parent Time Inc. corporation...
...glacial negotiations with management, rank-and-file union members at Eastern decided to strike despite the risk that they might force the 60-year- old carrier to go belly up -- and lose Eastern's 31,200 jobs in the process. For Lorenzo, the intense chairman of Eastern's parent firm, Texas Air, the prospects were no better: the nation's seventh largest airline was clearly in for a bone-jarring ride, huge financial losses and a very uncertain landing...