Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five-part series of Ends excerpts in one hasty lump and accused the Post of excerpt envy. (The Post had been prevented from buying rights to the book because the Washington Star had first bids, as a regular Times Syndicate customer.) Said a top executive of the parent Times Co.: "Officially, we're pissed." The ill feelings had not subsided much by week's end. On Sunday the Times carried an editorial reflecting on Watergate, which began with an acid reference to the Post's "second-rate burglary of H.R. Haldeman's memoir of a third...
...Washington Post Co., and which had agreed to pay the Times Syndicate $125,000-plus the promise of advance publicity-for U.S. magazine rights to the book. "We have had better days," said Newsweek Editor Edward Kosner the day the Post version appeared. Katharine Graham, chairman of the parent Washington Post Co., would not comment on whether she permitted her newspaper to upstage her magazine; but obviously she had, as she had learned of the Post's acquisition the night before it was published. Her observation: "Newsweek and the Post are very competitive. Sometimes it gets...
...understandable question. An estimated 25,000 to 100,000 child-snatching cases occur every year, and so the parent who observes court orders risks ending up the loser. In most states, kidnaping of children by one of their parents is not treated as a crime. Parents, even those denied custody in divorce arrangements, are exempted from the federal kidnap law. Lacking jurisdiction, the FBI almost never helps locate or return abducted offspring, even when state lines are crossed. Maybe, says Mrs. Downer, "I should tell them I've had three cars stolen, and their names are Joslyn, Heather...
...word entitlement lingers, suggesting some sort of an answer. Entitlement does not necessarily connote material possessions which "spoil" a child--a child can be spoiled and not necessarily feel that everything in the world belongs to them--but entitlement is an attitude passed down through the generations, from parent to child, which prompted the seven-year-old son of an Appalachian mine-owner to make the following observation after a mine explosion...
...future," in order to predict what families will be like at the end of this century. Trends the speakers will examine include the increasing number of married women joining the work force, the rising divorce rate that results in many kids spending part of childhood with only one parent, and the changing roles of parents. The forum will meet at 8 p.m. in the First Parish Church of Cambridge, 3 Church St., just off the Square...