Word: parentally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help pay its $20-a-day winter food bill, the sanctuary is asking conservationists to become "foster parents" to a fowl of their choice. For $10, the proud "parent" receives an announcement of the "adoption," a drawing of a bird and visiting privileges at the preserve for a year. The sanctuary has so far collected more than $2,000 in adoption fees, all from people who presumably would rather see a bird do its own stuffing this Christmas...
...family. In parallel studies of 1,500 American and German students, Rothman and Lichter discovered that radicals in both countries had similar family backgrounds: fathers they saw as stern and punitive, mothers as distant and cold. Says Lichter: "The essence of the relationship was reduced to respect for the parent because of his power, rather than love." At the same time, a whole generation of West German youth grew up in the dark about their fathers' wartime activities. A child did not ask: "What did you do in the war, Daddy?" Thus, in one sense, Germany produced a "fatherless...
...others will end up paying for his little ceremony. The Emperor will accept aid money from anyone, and currently receives it from South Africa, China and the Soviet Union. The bulk of the largesse, however, comes from France, which obligingly covers the C.A.E.'s deficits. Like an indulgent parent with a wastrel son, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing quietly passed the word that Paris would arrange compensation for all unpaid expenses. As the Emperor once put it, "Everything here was financed by the French government. We ask the French for money, get it and waste...
Citicorp, an international financial force with assets of $73 billion and offices in 93 countries, is the parent of Citibank-formerly First National City Bank -New York City's biggest bank, second largest in the nation and the world (after Bank of America). It is not, obviously, your friendly, flexible Bert Lance lending and saving shop. It is a hard-nosed company that will as swiftly foreclose a multimillion-dollar high-rise as a mom-and-pop delicatessen if the mortgage payments lag. Considering the cost of Manhattan real estate and the sensitivities of its stockholders, Citicorp might well...
...children in the program are usually between the ages of 7 to 12 and come from one-parent families in the lower income brackets...