Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fifty counter-protestors marched across the street in front of the State House chanting "Abortion, Freedom Now." Twelve women dressed in white robes, chained together and carrying a ten-foot wooden cross, led the line of picketers from the pro-abortion Parent's Aid Society...
...spite of the notices, that is a problem of their personality, not of the film. When will the authorities grow up, and listen to the U.S. Constitution? Adults are old enough to decide for themselves what they want to see or not see. The courts have no business playing parent for the rest...
...growing stock powers. In communications, for example, the report cited Federal Communications Commission records of July 1972 to show that the Chase Manhattan Bank had full or partial control over more than 14% of the stock of the Columbia Broadcasting System and 4.5% of the stock of RCA, the parent of the National Broadcasting Co.; Bankers Trust Co. voted more than 10% of the stock of the American Broadcasting Co. and just under 10% of the stock of Metromedia. Banks have been so deeply into broadcasting that in 1972 the FCC had to liberalize its rules to increase, from...
Step for Reform. By law, street-name partnerships and the names of their parent institutions are registered with the clerks of the counties in which the nominees are based. Still it is difficult for the shareholders to penetrate the web of nominees' names to find who really controls his company. Even some Government agencies have failed to identify the institutions behind the nominees. When the FCC learned in 1969 that the banks were in violation of its 1% holding rule, it was because the banks themselves had confessed their error. The commission's specialists never had attempted...
...recent ad in a New York City newspaper contained the following encomium to an R-rated ("Under 17 re quires accompanying Parent or Adult Guardian") film: "Loud/ brassy/ biting/ clever/ fresh/ bold/ glittering/ offbeat/ compelling/ truth/ humor/ devastating/ fun/ hilarious/ murder/ rape/ comedy/ inventive/ caustic/ kinky/ droll/ raw/ jagged/ power/ demolishes...