Word: parental
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Times, and the Los Angeles Times, have changed. The crucial difference is Otis Chandler, 51, who became publisher in 1960. Though his father Norman had made the Times a serious paper, Otis made it one of the nation's best, and turned its parent Times Mirror Co. into a vast communications empire. Times Mirror owns five other newspapers, two television stations, two cable TV companies, five magazines, three book clubs, seven book-publishing companies and extensive paper and forest holdings. Revenues last year topped $1.4 billion, and David Halberstam in his bestselling The Powers That Be calls the newspaper...
Opposed by many of the state's educators, the Carey decision was a victory for student and parent groups backed by Ralph Nader, who has encouraged "truth in testing" campaigns in California, Colorado, Texas, Ohio and Massachusetts, as well as New York. Carey's move gave Nader his first signal victory, and last week Nader called the decision a "turning point in the national campaign to subject the testing industry to public scrutiny," adding, "ETS has been judging the worth of students for years. Now the students are getting a chance to judge the worth...
...affected his writing is not readily apparent. More comprehensible are the roots of Boswell's reckless social life, specifically his Scots Calvinist origin with its severe strictures against wine and wenching. For Boswell, the embodiment of this authority was his father, the eighth Lord Auchinleck, a straitlaced, unaffectionate parent and a distinguished jurist who wore his courtroom robes around the house. The case history is not unfamiliar: son seeks the attention of the remote, puritanical father by challenging his values; one thing leads to another; guilt accrues; activities detrimental to health and welfare are pursued; the harmful consequences become...
Oxfam-America and its parent group Oxfam-United Kingdom hope to raise about $370,000 for the refugees...
Screenplay by Gail Parent and Andrew Smith