Word: parental
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While my students are enjoying free time, a parent calls me over. But instead of asking about his kid's flip turn, he makes a comment about Hahvahd. I am taken aback: the owner must have been bragging. The murmur of conversation in our area has died: all ears are on me. I smile and respond, then try to get my concentration back to where it should be: my swim class. On the way home, I see college decals in the back windows of other cars: University of Idaho, Pullman University, BYU. I promise myself never to buy a Harvard...
Long-term welfare recipients are generally uneducated, have little work experience, have young children in their care and are from disadvantaged minority groups. Any jobs they find will be low-paying ones. Consider this example: A single-parent mother in Illinois would collect $7,080 in welfare if she did not work. In a full-time job paying $4.90 per hour, she would earn only $7,632 after subtracting for taxes, child care, transportation and clothing--and she would lose her health benefits. Not an easy life, by any means...
Montoursville has a population of 5,000, including 800 high school students. So it lives very much through its children. "The school is the hub of the community," says parent Donita Rodarmel. Groups of teenagers cried last week on its grounds. Beyond them, turn-of-the-century gingerbread houses lined the streets. From many of these homes fly small flags. Some are American flags, now at half-mast. But some are happy, multi-hued pennants, bearing sunflowers, bluebirds or other motifs. They are nothing necessary; just a little extracurricular effort to make life more pleasant and varied...
...resources. Its chief problem is distribution. MSNBC is carried so far in 22.5 million cable homes, a record number for a start-up cable channel, but still far behind CNN's 68.5 million. (CNN is owned by Turner Broadcasting, which is in the process of merging with Time Warner, parent company of TIME.) And a new competitor from Fox, due in October, won't make life any easier...
...comic conceit of the confusion caused by look-alikes has been used everywhere from Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors to "The Patty Duke Show" to "Parent Trap." But the technology in "Multiplicity" is seamless, and Keaton does a good job of giving each of his xeroxes a distinct (if somewhat stereotyped) personality. There's the first, harried Doug, who loses serious likeability points for suggesting his wife quit her new job because even with two of him, he can't handle taking care of the kids. The second Doug, who takes over the construction job, becomes macho and tough...