Word: parent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assume the writer of "Dark Clouds over the Drive-Ins" [Aug. 8] has not been to an outdoor movie in the past few years. No parent would take his child to see the trash being shown. And no adult in his right mind would want to go either. There is too much noise, beer, drugs and blasting stereos going on around your...
...computer system to process the broad array of products that American Express sells, including financial-management accounts, traveler's checks and credit cards. In addition, American Express began to fear that some of its top managers would have to spend too much time integrating IDS operations into the parent company. All along, American Express was nervous about IDS's lackluster performance on the bottom line. Alleghany's earnings, which come mostly from IDS, were down 7.9% last year, to $62.8 million...
...other times, such overt parent-child rivalry might be considered unhealthy. These days it is considered smart. By the end of his week in the mountains, Schnelker had written and debugged a 1,000-line BASIC program and learned enough about computers to hold his own with both the programmers on his staff and the young know-it-alls at home. And Schnelker is not alone. This summer thousands of men and women are signing up for the nation's newest form of vacation retreat: the adult computer camp...
...some, computer camping is a family affair. Hedy Messinger brought her mother, 68, and her two children, Candy, 7, and Mark, 13, to Clarkson College's Family Computer Camp in Potsdam, N.Y. At first, she was fearful that a heavy dose of computerese would bore her parent. Not so. "She was absolutely riveted," says Messinger. "We had to drag her away from the machine just to make sure she got nourishment...
...littered with suicides, failed marriages, estranged children and an assortment of ambivalent sexual identities. The one successful relationship is built between two women: Dawn Henley, 18 at the outset, an orphaned college student, and Dr. Lulu Shinefeld, her fortyish psychoanalyst. In classic Freudian fashion, the patient seeks a surrogate parent. The analyst, a divorcee and failed mother, comes to view her patient as a surrogate daughter. Each woman uses the analytic relationship to relive, and make up for, errors that were made in their other lives outside the room with the couch. Ironically but somehow predictably, as Dawn slowly improves...