Word: parente
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...from competitors. The company pioneered such techniques as automatic transfers over the telephone, and is developing a slew of advanced phone and computer products to speed the transactions. Fidelity also sees new markets in the thousands of corporations for which it administers 401(k) plans (including this magazine's parent company, Time Warner). It wants to persuade those customers to let it handle data-dense departments such as medical insurance, human resources and payroll as well. The attraction for corporations is lower cost. The attraction for employees is one-stop shopping for everything from address changes to changing their pension...
...compromise plan defused the constitutional issue but left bruised feelings. "Why can't the private sector raise money for public schools?" asks Katherine Masi, a parent who is a member of a local New York school board. "What we need are new buildings." Says eighth-grader Melisa Figueroa: "I understand how it might help, but the problems in public schools are still going to be there...
...scarce in Ireland as they had been in America, but life did not much improve on those rare occasions when Frank's father Malachy found work. As McCourt recalls in a spunky, bittersweet memoir called Angela's Ashes (Scribner; 364 pages; $24), his dad was both a kindly parent and a world-class rummy. Sober enough during the week, on paydays Malachy McCourt would guzzle away his wages at a pub and, late Friday night, stagger home, penniless. There, while his wife Angela wept and railed, he would coax his sons into singing old patriot tunes and roar that they...
...parent. He takes his daughter to ballet lessons," Bronfman said. "He's the only candidate with an understanding of the day-to-day pressures faced by families...
...outset. In Genesis, when God discovers that Adam and Eve have eaten the forbidden fruit, the King James conjures up a roar of rebuke: "And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou has done?" The Deity in the New Living Translation sounds like a parent scolding a child who has just tracked mud into the kitchen: "How could you do such a thing...