Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state, and the state has no right to force someone to be bused anywhere against his will. Each person has the right to do what he wants with his own life, including the free choice of which school he should attend. In the case of a young child the parent has the right to make this choice. Forced busing is an obvious violation of each person's right to be free from aggression and the initiation of the use of force...
...films over the next six years. Among his projects: a sequel to Chinatown and a remake of the 1946 classic, Notorious. Evans' decision to quit as production chief may be due in part to a falling out with Charles Bluhdorn, autocratic chairman of Paramount's parent company, Gulf & Western. Paramount cut Evans' slice of Chinatown's profits from 25% to 12½%, and the two men have not spoken for months. "Charlie has been like a father to me," says Evans. "But you don't necessarily have to love your father...
...richer, there can have been few who were idler"), young Clark basked off the Riviera on the new yacht his father bought more or less annually. The Clarks had the sort of wealth to maintain on their estate a nine-hole golf course complete with pro, even though neither parent played the game. The boy's only sport was walking about the family bogs soliloquizing, a practice he claimed prepared him for television...
...latest novel off the Arthur Hailey assembly line tells the story of the First Mercantile American Bank. It is one of the 20 largest in the country, with its parent-branch office tower gleaming over a composite city in the Midwest. (A dirty river flows past the First Mercantile, and there are plenty of slums.) Following the death of wise and kindly F.M.A. President Ben Rosselli, two vice presidents personifying fiscal vice and fiscal virtue struggle for control...
...pointing out that Congress had intended the law to allow women to choose not to work and devote themselves instead to the care of children. But without a mother, said the court, "it is no less important for a child to be cared for by its sole surviving parent when that parent is male rather than female." The decision allows for a new class of Social Security payments. The Government estimates that such payments would have cost an extra $20 million last year...