Word: parental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Three out of five youngsters felt rejected by at least one parent...
...cigarette-size cylinder that heats tobacco rather than burns it, can be used to smoke crack, the cocaine derivative. That one has lit a fuse at RJR. Last week research head G. Robert Di Marco attacked the accusations in J.A.M.A. as "distortions to further the political goals of its parent organization...
...help people," said the 41st President. "We are not the sum of our possessions . . . We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it . . . in all things, generosity...
...First, we want to be protected in cases of bodily liability, as in if a child gets hurt in school and a parent decides to sue us. Second, there are errors of omission; for example if someone sues us because their son didn't know how to read. And we're also looking to get defense costs for civil rights issues, as if a woman wasn't hired for a particular job and decides to sue us," he said...
...scandal erupted last July, when the daily Asahi Shimbun disclosed that the Recruit group, the parent company of a real estate firm called Recruit Cosmos, had sold unlisted stock in the subsidiary at bargain prices in 1984-86 to politicians, journalists and business leaders. The well-placed purchasers reaped millions of dollars in profits when Recruit Cosmos went public and its shares tripled in value. While Japanese firms often sell inexpensive stock to influential buyers, the scope of the Recruit Cosmos handouts was unprecedented. Hiromasa Ezoe, chairman of the Recruit group, sold more than 885,000 unlisted Recruit Cosmos shares...