Word: parent
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...N.Y.F.E. (pronounced knife), which is located adjacent to its parent, the New York Stock Exchange, is the first major diversification in the N.Y.S.E.'s 188-year history. The new exchange aims to become an important international center for trading in financial futures, which have been pioneered by the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's International Monetary Market. Essentially, financial futures are contracts to buy or sell Treasury securities, Government-backed mortgages, or foreign currencies at a preset price at a specified future date. Says N.Y.F.E. Chairman John Phelan: "Few commodities have as much potential...
...founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy--everything. Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from before the Revolution. We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from...
...Noon Unpack and arrange belongings in your clothes in drawers and shut them before any parent can make a comment about what a nice collection of t-shirts you have or wonder aloud how their kid is ever going to live with a slob. Carefully extract the recommended summer reading from your suitcase and place the tomes on your shelf, affording them a prominent position. Now is the moment of truth: do you lie, telling your roommate you actually read all those books, or are you honest, saying you wouldn't be caught dead reading anything you don't absolutely...
Legislation I have introduced would accomplish this by requiring state courts to give full faith and credit to custody decrees of other states. This would prevent a parent who either loses or fears losing a custody suit in one state from seeking a more favorable custody decree in another state. The bill would also allow the FBI to be brought in after 60 days, if the child is not found, and create a federal misdemeanor offense of "parental kidnaping...
Having been through a bitter divorce and been frustrated at every turn by an indifferent judge, I have come to the conclusion that good, honest men are driven to acts of violence when legalities are adjudicated but justice is forgotten. And I will add that a truly sincere single parent, usually the father, must abide by the injustice, pay for the administration of the injustice, but in the end stand by frustrated and filled with sorrow as his own children slowly withdraw from...