Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...James Gordon Bennet Jr., self-exiled son of the New York Herald's founder, started the paper in 1887 as the Paris edition of the Herald. In 1935 it became the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, which it still strongly resembles in typography. After the parent paper died in 1966, Publisher John Hay Whitney took on the Post and Times as partners in the Paris survivor...
...never to give in. Most British jockeys are small and underpaid in a flossy, fat social sport where the term "gentleman jockey" had to be coined to designate the rare exception. When that is not enough motivation, Francis throws in a physical handicap, or a grudge against a Victorian parent...
...stock side, a group of Japanese banks last month put up $5,000,000 to buy a 90,000-share block, or .2% of the stock, in First National City Co., parent company of Manhattan's First National City Bank. Chrysler Corp. is considering selling to Japanese investors a million shares of its stock-worth about $35 million-to raise money for a joint automaking venture with Mitsubishi Motors Corp...
...investment has unquestionably enabled these industries to grow larger than they would have if they had been dependent solely on Canadian capital. In many a provincial town, U.S.-owned factories are almost the only source of employment and prosperity. Still, Canadians commonly complain that U.S. parent companies (known in Canada as "American mothers") treat the country like one gigantic branch plant. The "mothers" are accused, for example, of concentrating research and development in the U.S.; the percentage of Canadian gross national product devoted to R. and D. is among the lowest of industrialized nations...
...Although the paper lost $5,000,000 in 1971, the parent Herald Traveler Corp. could always post a healthy profit, at least until last year, thanks to some $6,000.000 in annual net income from its television station WHDH. (Declining TV revenue in 1971 caused a net loss for the company of $310,000.) The really damaging blow came in January, when the Federal Communications Commission took away the corporation's TV license in order to diversify local media ownership. The corporation had fought 24 years for clear title to the license in a complex, oft-contested case...