Word: parente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Danger Signal. Root of the trouble is a recessive gene. If only one parent has this defective gene, the child will not develop the disease, though he may pass on the gene. But if both parents have it, an average of one child out of four will have a deficiency of ceruloplasmin-a little-understood blue component of the blood, in which eight atoms of copper are bound into a large protein molecule. A deficiency of ceruloplasmin leads to a piling up of copper in such sensitive organs as the liver and brain...
...empire retrenched, Barclays prudently struck out "Dominion, Colonial and Overseas" from its longtime overseas title and left the meaningless initials. Today it is involved in a profitable partnership with onetime colonials that has raised its assets to $2.5 billion, a significant portion of the $9 billion assets of its parent, Barclays Bank Ltd. of London...
Personal-File Tragedy. The text for Black's speeches was a Stanford student's personal file, the dry paper chronology of what Black called one of the saddest stories he had ever seen: a parent pushing his son toward a prestige college so hard that the kid broke down. The file began with a letter on the stationery of a large corporation, signed by the president, which requested a college application blank for his son and added in a guileless-looking P.S. that the boy's mother was a Stanford alumna. Next, with thanks for the dean...
...very young"), women's credit cards (men are urged not to argue when the female reaches for the check at a business lunch), and psychiatric patients ("No one undergoing treatment should be embarrassed to mention the fact"). As for those pesky teenagers, Miss Vanderbilt advises: "Parents are wise to overlook seemingly disrespectful outbursts from time to time . . . The parent must get across the idea that 'I love you always but sometimes I do not love your behavior...
...such a leading child psychiatrist as Manhattan's Dr. William Langford, it is not the box that helps or hinders so much as "the quality of the parent-child relationship-how much the child is taken out to be played with, the warmth in the family and so on." So far, most box-bred babies-there have been more than 400-seem to have had the right kind of parents. Among them: bright-eyed Debbie Skinner, 18, who hopes to enter Radcliffe...