Word: parent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...child has no corner on inappropriate males. After Flap takes a job in Des Moines ("You can't even fail locally," cries Aurora, whose contempt for her son-in-law is her one immutable, hilarious quality), a plaintive note creeps into her obsessive phone calls to her daughter. Parent is now becoming a dependent, in need of a confidante, especially with that astronaut orbiting around...
Beneath the Vatican's stern and watchful gaze, the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. sometimes must seem like an unruly teenager. Rather like an adolescent, the U.S. church demands the right to experiment and to be "relevant." Like any prudent parent, Pope John Paul II is seeking to exercise a firm hand without alienating. Consider some of the family conflicts over the past few weeks...
...companies, with small staffs at the top, will be free to tread where no phone company has ever gone, into almost any nonregulated business, except manufacturing telephones or certain kinds of information processing. Some have chosen to use the Bell name and logo, a privilege that Greene denied the parent AT&T, while others have attempted to get away from the dowdy image of the "telephone company...
...corporate telephone pole step by step, going through 23 jobs in nine cities. He became president of Illinois Bell Telephone in 1969 and earned a place in AT&T lore by making service calls during a repairmen's strike. After becoming chief financial officer of the parent company, he developed innovative ways to reduce AT&T's debt. As president, he began pushing AT&T forward rapidly in such advanced fields as fiber optics and electronic voice recognition...
Some of them get married and have a terrible time, including violence. Some under-21 year olds have children and parent them poorly or worse, abuse or kill them. Some go to movies and are unduly influenced by characters in the films or take away had ideas or the wrong impressions about life from them...