Word: parental
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...wonder some parents want a firm hand to restore order. (Though as a parent, I should note that having a kid gives you only an extra tax deduction, not an extra vote.) The government cannot regulate violence on TV, but some lawmakers are advocating that it do so. And it is an election year. Hillary Clinton and John McCain have both been active in media-decency issues, and Barack Obama cited his bona fides as a concerned parent at a recent debate...
...even if you don’t think of the Foreign Service as some kind of surrogate parent, most of us imagine that our national embassies—bomb targets as they are—are at least shelters, dispensers of information and help centers. Until you have cause to visit one such haven, it’s hard to realize quite how absurd this illusion is. Helping national citizens is, of course but a small part of embassy duties; they are mostly occupied with far more significant matters: negotiating trade disputes, schmoozing local bigwigs, putting on cultural shows...
...meets professional academic objectives she helped set in the beginning of the year, $1,067 if she earns a good evaluation from her principal and $711 if her school is judged to be a "distinguished school," on the basis of a mix of criteria that includes parent satisfaction...
Since Massachusetts has no parent-child confidentiality law, police officers who enter these homes can use anything they hear the family say or anything they observe in the house to incriminate people in that family. When parents volunteer to allow police officers into their homes specifically to make those homes safer, those families must know the potential implications of that visit...
...solution to this problem is not to revoke the Massachusetts law regarding parent-child confidentiality, but to ensure that this law is clear to the residents who agree to be searched. The track record for this type of program is encouraging, and hopefully, similar results will occur in Boston. Making it clear to residents that their behavior and words can be used against them must happen first, so that finding firearms can become a priority...