Word: parente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good enough that we become great Moms or Dads. We are surrounded by pressure to earn six-figure salaries and hold prestigious titles. We feel that we must succeed in one particular way, and there's something not quite right with just being someone's spouse or parent. Marriage and children--having a family--is seen as something to be put off or avoided, as a hindrance that will prevent us from achieving success...
Thus far the coalition has tried to galvanizethe immigrant community in support of the movementthrough discussions with parent advisory councils,high school students, immigrant groups andactivists, Andler said...
...your contributions back. But some states refund only principal, beating you out of years' worth of investment gains. And state prepaid plans make it tougher to get student aid because the money is held in the student's name. With savings plans the money is in a parent's name, where it counts less heavily in student-aid formulas--and you can set aside as much as $100,000 for expenses at any U.S. college...
...there a parent in America who has heard the talk or read the best sellers about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and the drugs used to treat it without wondering about his or her child--the first time he climbs onto the school bus still wearing his pj's or loses his fifth pair of mittens or finds 400 ways to sit in a chair? The debate goes straight to the heart of our expectations and values. How dreamy is too dreamy? Where is the line between an energetic child and a hyperactive one, between a spirited, risk-taking...
...shaped mouth and bulging eyes. It looks a lot like creatures from the movie Gremlins. ("I do have a sense of deja vu when I look at those things," says film director Joe Dante. Warner Bros., which made Gremlins, has voiced concern to Hasbro, the corporate parent of Furby manufacturer Tiger Electronics, about the similarity...