Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before Mexico struck oil, the United States could play the role of parent--an inexcusably selfish, and often negligent parent, but a parent nonetheless. The disguise, however, was too transparent and too often cast aside to conceal the raw facts of America's superior might and Mexico's dependence on the U.S. as a market for 70 per cent of its exports and as a source of foreign investment...
...scant two years later, ABC is attempting to make lightning strike twice - and now everyone is on the alert. When Roots: The Next Generations opens its seven-night run on Sunday, Feb. 18, both audiences and the TV industry will be judging the offspring against its towering parent. Expectations are running high. Commercial time has been sold out for weeks, at $210,000 to $260,000 a minute (compared with $120,000 to $150,000 for Roots 1). The series has already been sold to 20 countries. CBS and NBC will not be caught napping again; their fierce counterprogramming gambits...
...hourly wages since 1970 have jumped 61% in Belgium and 70% in Italy; in the U.S., they have increased by only 12%. With the U.S. now growing faster than Europe, multinational managers have to shave expenses or else risk having their European operations drag down the performance of the parent companies as well. As a result, businessmen are cutting their European costs in several ways...
...this particular youth is not preparing to face his first girlfriend or an angry parent. This boy's desperation is terrifyingly real as he sits in Prince George's (P.G.) County Courtroom facing charges of murdering two policemen...
...crowd at the old Watson Rink? Well, on the road, Harvard goalies found the dead chickens, smelly fish, and empty beer cans being hurled in their direction. Goalies also can't blot out terms of endearment like "sieve," "red light," "funnel," nor comments on their ethnic origin and parent's sex habits...