Word: parent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ordeal began with every parent's nightmare: small children, unguarded for a few moments, tumble into tragedy. Jessica's teenage parents Chip, 18, and Reba, 17, live in a blue-collar section of Midland (pop. 100,000), a drilling center hard hit by the oil slump. Chip McClure is a house painter, and Reba helped baby-sit at the home of her sister-in-law Donna Johnson. It is still unclear how Jessica managed to fall through the 8-in. opening, partly covered only by a flowerpot, in the Johnson backyard. But suddenly last Wednesday she was wedged...
Many of the new telecommuters and home entrepreneurs are women who want to spend more time with their children. Typical is Bonnie Figgatt, 38, of Madison, Conn., who works at home as a planning manager for the Travelers Cos., the corporate parent of the insurance and financial-services firm. Even though she must drive her 18-month-old son Thomas to a nearby baby-sitter every workday, Figgatt has more time for him in the morning and evening because she no longer has to commute 35 miles each way to company headquarters in Hartford. She finds her new life comparatively...
...their behavior, Mones estimates that less than 10% of parricide defendants have any previous record. "In the parricide cases, the kids are rarely high," he says. And the vast majority of parricides are premeditated. The typical modus operandi: several shots to the back of the head of a sleeping parent...
...candidates said the most divisive issue is that of parent evaluation of teachers, but other issues are at the top of the Independents' list. CCA President Jack Martinelli said his organization wants to make parent comments a formal part of the teacher evaluation process--although such a move is banned by the teachers' current contract...
...whole CCA platform is a case of sensationalism," Fantini said. "I think the CCA candidates ought to debate each other," he added. "It's amazing, the differences between them [on parent evaluation...