Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life. For some girls it is a ticket off the farm to the big city. These days, if a farmer saves enough to buy an apartment in the city, it becomes the daughter's dowry and attracts a young engineer, mechanic or construction worker." But for a poor parent with many daughters, it has always been an immense and even ruinous burden. Wails one unfortunate father of five girls on the island of Kalymnos: "Better we save enough money to go to Australia, where they will find a husband...
...private compartments. The progression from the intimately jostling horse-drawn carriage to the railroad car to the encapsulated lone automobile rider and then to the seat-belted airplane passenger who cannot converse with his seatmate because they are both wearing earphones for the recorded music; the progression from the parent reading aloud to the children, to the living theater with living audiences, to the darkened motion-picture house, to the home of private television sets, each twinkling in a different room for a different member of the family - these are the natural progressions of technology. Each of us will have...
...second stanza saw the Islanders notch four more against the now sun-burnt Bernie Parent, including two by Swede-turned-Canadian Nystrom completing the third hat trick of his career...
...third period offered more of the same, even though Fred Shero benched Parent in favor of Wayne Stephenson. The Islanders finally relented after two scores brought their total to eight, and the Flyers conceded after scoring three against an on-again, off-again Resch...
...worked. After a decade of solid but fairly slow growth, the chain suddenly took off; between 1972 and 1976 the number of stores more than tripled. During the company's fiscal year ending last June, profits rose 120%, to $64 million. Radio Shack indeed has almost taken over its parent firm. Tandy Corp. has spun off most of its other businesses into separate companies chaired by Charles Tandy, and now has only minor operations other than Radio Shack...