Word: parent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...video stores and rent movies that they would not be able to see in a theater. Sometimes the youthful customers are content with somewhat less grisly fare, like the immensely successful Friday the 13th series. The ease with which minors can rent and watch such nightmarish visions has alarmed parent organizations around the country. These groups contend that while sexually provocative movies usually carry at least an R rating, "slasher" films containing explicit violence are often unrated and available to youngsters...
...think there's a definite chance of making it," said Blair. "In the pros, you never expect a starting role or anticipate that you will make it to the parent club. You just work as hard...
...paid $2.1 billion for new 747-300 and 747-400 jetliners from Seattle's Boeing last week, the No. 2 U.S. carrier secured more than standard safety equipment. As part of the deal, Boeing agreed to purchase $700 million in promissory notes convertible to stock in the airline's parent, Allegis, based in Elk Grove Village, Ill. If Boeing acquires stock, it could become the company's largest shareholder and thus help Allegis thwart hostile takeover attempts. Boeing cannot exceed a 30% share without the consent of Allegis' board...
Students with cars and professors for parents can sometimes use their parent's space. Leif F. Hutchinson '90 says he kept a car in his father's parking space behind the Jefferson Labs for use on weekends...
...rethink the implications of literary history for hermeneutics. Nowhere is this radical project illustrated better than in the humorous and ingenious, "My Monster/My Self", in which Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is read as an autobiographical confession of maternal rejection. The literary monster is analyzed as product of "a single parent household," the unwanted brainchild of a mad (pro)creator, who in childhood was abandoned by her own mother...