Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of Communications/ Research/ Machines, which they founded in 1967. Last July they quit C/R/M, took over the Review, and started planning its transformation. Now that Cousins is gone, Charney becomes titular editor of the Review; he and Veronis will become co-editors in chief of the newly formed parent conglomerate, Saturday Review Industries. They are still seeking an executive editor to run the weekly and four planned monthly versions of the Review...
...nation's voters are opposed to busing; the striking fact is that the percentage figures are down five points from a year ago. Even in Pontiac, the student council of Northern High School has tried to send a letter home to parents explaining, as 16-year-old Swanola James puts it, that "we all aren't worked up." (The principal, she says, quashed the letter for fear of offending N.A.G. parents.) Parent volunteers have been working in the Pontiac schools and trying to counteract the N.A.G. with a slogan that has cropped up this year on bumper stickers in both...
Children and Chicks. Beyond that, Feinbloom believes that teaching babies is no substitute for playing with them; turning them over "to a machine wired up for sound and light" deprives them of the warm parent-child give-and-take that is crucial to emotional health and to eventual academic achievement...
...culture adage about the Dead that, unlike other youth culture wisdom, has been empirically verified: they're sometimes the best in the world, but when they're bad, they're the pits. And much as I like the New Riders on their own, my irresistible allegiance turns to the parent group's brand of insanity. The Dead seem to have lost their way. If the New Riders can help them find it again, they should do all of us a favor and do so quickly...
...when struck by a hurtling neutron, does not break apart as does U-235. Instead, it absorbs the particle and is transmuted, by 20th century alchemy, into fissionable plutonium. Thus the breeder's fertile material is gradually converted to plutonium, which can eventually be used to refuel the parent breeder and other reactors...