Word: parent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suit, filed in federal court, demands an injunction that would force her Long Island hospital to go to court to fight any parent's decision to reject life-prolonging surgery for a seriously handicapped newborn. Washburn alleges that Baby Jane is but one of approximately 300 babies who are victims of a nationwide effort by hospitals and doctors to justify "infanticide." Washburn's is the second federal suit brought in the Long Island case. The other was filed by the Federal Government, which sought access to Baby Jane's medical records to determine if she was being...
...underside of the bottom line is the music, and for those who do not like to study the numbers, there is Duran Duran, an affable, uninspired British band currently aglow with success. Says Norman Samnick, senior vice president of Warner Communications, which is MTV'S proud parent: "I think Duran Duran owes its life to MTV." Duran Duran, in the person of Synthesizer Player Nick Rhodes, agrees: "MTV was instrumental in breaking us in America." Even the record industry could beam in on the phenomenon when it noticed that the Duran Duran album, Rio, was being sold...
...unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting depotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other... The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must...
...insisted on calling "little people," each different from all others. Roberts invented a syrupy ritual for selling the dolls. They were not made but "delivered" and "adopted" at a former medical clinic in Cleveland, Ga. His employees had to wear nurse's white uniforms, and each prospective "parent" had to raise a right hand and vow undying love. Roberts has sold 250,000 dolls, many to adults for themselves, at prices ranging from $125 to $1,000. But the national madness began only when Roberts' Original Appalachian Artworks Inc. negotiated a licensing agreement with Coleco. The Coleco computers...
Certainly, in middle-class communities, parents are flocking to help out their schools. PTA membership jumped by 70,000 in the past school year, reversing a 20-year decline. Washington State PTA President Mary Ann Laramore notes that four years ago, $3,000 was considered a big budget for a PTA, but today "we're seeing budgets of $10,000 to $12,000." The Smoke Rise Elementary School in the Atlanta suburb of Stone Mountain boasts a lab with 14 Apple II computers, 13 of which were bought by the PTA. The Lafayette parent group in Washington, B.C., which...