Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Erickson bought it in 1955, is now one of the fastest-growing U.S. ad firms, handling such heavyweights as Gillette, Heublein and Paine Webber. Erwin Wasey, a West Coast firm that joined the Interpublic fold in 1963, and Detroit-based Campbell-Ewald, a 1972 acquisition, have also prospered. The parent company decides basic policy, sets annual goals and provides central services such as legal, financial and marketing support, but the agencies are left to fight for clients on their own. Says SSC&B President Alfred J. Seaman: "If we had a new business prospect, I would want us to compete...
...used the tactic of, well, I'm a parent and I know what it's like, how kids can get on your nerves," Belisle continues. "Meanwhile, I'd watch the kids, see how they behaved, how they reacted to their parents." Adds Joanne Zannotti, Belisle's unit supervisor in Worcester: "The healthier parents are already feeling guilty and they'll bend over backward to cooperate, seek counseling." But some parents "go on insisting the child fell down a flight of stairs long after it's clear they've been hurting the child." Claims...
...strikeout, and suddenly the Dodgers led their rematch with the Yankees, two games to zip. Young Welch's achievement vindicated the old-fashioned Dodger way of baseball: scout the hinterlands for raw talent, groom it carefully down on the farm, then bring young players up to the parent club to fill the gaps that age and injury inevitably open during the long, hot summer. Of a 25-man roster, 13 are onetime Dodger farm boys. In contrast, the Yankees built their team by spending big bucks on the free-agent market and have only six home-grown players...
SHORTLY before his death, Engelhard, in a complicated series of transactions, sold off much of his South African interests to Anglo-American and other companies. The current Engelhard family parent corporation, Engelhard Minerals and Chemicals, still has diversified holdings in South Africa, but in the recent climate of intensified criticism of U.S. operations there, the Engelhard company has refused to disclose the extent of the assets and activities of its privately held South African subsidiary. In October, 1976, the company refused to cooperate with Sen. Dick Clark's committee studying U.S. investments in Southern Africa...
...owner of the store. For an additional $10, attorneys will write routine letters or make simple phone calls for customers. Sold also are a variety of "packages," telephone advice and preparation of forms used for simple wills ($30), changes of name ($75) and uncontested divorces ($125). These and step-parent adoptions ($75) are the hottest sale items...