Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parent. He takes his daughter to ballet lessons," Bronfman said. "He's the only candidate with an understanding of the day-to-day presures faced by families...
...says Alan Ackerman, a market strategist at Fahnestock & Co. While stock prices of the big tobacco firms used to rebound quickly after bad news, August has been the long goodbye. Philip Morris plunged from $104.66 a share to $88, and RJR Nabisco from $30.75 to $25.50. Loews Corp., parent of Lorillard Tobacco, slipped from $80.66 to $74.75. "This has all the makings of a tobacco Chernobyl," says Ackerman. Not if you ask the accountants. Overall, profits and sales in the industry are up this year, and sales abroad are strong...
...bashing of everyone in this party. It's an embarrassment. So many people are gay, or go both ways...I don't want to hear about it. And I don't want to hear about abortion. That's people's own business...Fifty percent of all families are single parent; 65 percent of all women work. We can't crap on them...
While my students are enjoying free time, a parent calls me over. But instead of asking about his kid's flip turn, he makes a comment about Hahvahd. I am taken aback: the owner must have been bragging. The murmur of conversation in our area has died: all ears are on me. I smile and respond, then try to get my concentration back to where it should be: my swim class. On the way home, I see college decals in the back windows of other cars: University of Idaho, Pullman University, BYU. I promise myself never to buy a Harvard...
Long-term welfare recipients are generally uneducated, have little work experience, have young children in their care and are from disadvantaged minority groups. Any jobs they find will be low-paying ones. Consider this example: A single-parent mother in Illinois would collect $7,080 in welfare if she did not work. In a full-time job paying $4.90 per hour, she would earn only $7,632 after subtracting for taxes, child care, transportation and clothing--and she would lose her health benefits. Not an easy life, by any means...