Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blow up the factory-and there was not a Weatherman among them. Quite the contrary. The first on the list of the indicted was none other than Charles D. Moeller, 48, president of both Sponge Rubber Products, a division of Grand Sheet Metal Products Co., and of their parent company, Ohio Decorative Products Inc. of Spencerville, Ohio. If convicted, Moeller could be sent to prison for a total of 60 years on six counts...
...Parents also justifiably fear the effect of busing on their children's education and the harm, discomfort or inconvenience it may cause. They also disapprove of their children being used like laboratory equipment in vague sociological experiments. They send their children to school for an education and don't like to see them used for anything else. After all, to a parent, his child is not easily replaceable like a broken test tube...
...ETHNIC quotas are arbitrary. In many cases determining whether someone is a Mexican-American, a white or a black can only be done through arbitrary official definitions. Questions like what is a Spanish surname, and how does the state classify someone who has one white and one black parent, can only have arbitrarily legal answers. The necessity of having legally established racial definitions and assigning these labels to people is another Nazi-like trait of quota systems...
What can be done then to break down racial barriers and improve education? Professor Milton Friedman has advanced a voucher proposal, under which every parent would receive the average amount of tax dollars spent on his child, say $1000, in voucher form. He could then use this voucher to send his child to any school, public or private, he chose. This plan would benefit mostly the poor, who would have a chance to escape decrepit inner city schools. The plan would greatly improve education as schools become subject to the demands of the market place. Friedman writes, "Private schools...
...Living Parent. The Cambodian planeload was the latest in a series of irregularities that has troubled the humanitarian effort. At San Francisco's Presidio, where 932 of the children made a temporary stop, several Vietnamese-speaking interviewers discovered that some of the orphans said they were not orphans at all. Jane Barton, a staff member of the American Friends Service Committee who spent three years in Viet Nam, found two dozen children who claimed they had at least one living parent. Interviewer Nhu Miller talked to a twelve-year-old boy and his two sisters who said their parents...