Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...market in Citizens Band radio equipment; CB enthusiasts accounted for almost 25% of the chain's $742 million in revenues last year. Experts forecast sales this year of at least ten million of the new CB models, and Radio Shack is set to take home to its parent, Tandy Corp. of Fort Worth, an increasing share of the industry's profits. With its sales of hi-fi and stereo equipment also booming, the chain is expanding at a pace that puts it further and further ahead of its closest rivals. Lafayette Radio Electronics, for instance, was once bigger than Radio...
...resolution of all these elements into a happy ending, best celebrated by orgasm." Unfortunately, most people work with a story line that includes the harming of someone else. Thus each person picks a lover who fits the script by resembling an important figure of his childhood-a parent, for example, against whom he is seeking revenge...
Harvard's Lewontin dismisses theories like these as "barroom generalizations." Indeed, sociobiologists seem prone to concoct theories to explain a wide array of human problems. Harvard Biologist Robert L. Trivers presented the convention with his sociobiological view of parent-child relationships. Conflict is built in, he said, because parents divide their genetic investment-and their attention-among their children; while each child has a 100% investment in itself and struggles for 100% of the parents' time...
Some of the comments Rich makes about sexual relationships and relationships between women lead one to believe she turned to lesbianism after her husband's death, which might explain some of the inconsistencies in her argument. Parenting--a concept she hardly considers in her eagerness to show the problems with mothering--is a two-gender operation, and her one-sided focus on mothering ignores the satisfaction that both parents could get out of dealing with children. What she really objects to, it seems, is her feeling that her three sons expected her to repress all anger in their interest...
...added that the Liberal Club is a recent liberal offshoot of the conservative Liberal Democratic Party. But he said it does not differ radically from its parent party, which facilitates cooperation...