Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fissures in the marriage deepened, it was easy to tell which parent was in charge on a particular day. Diana dressed the boys in baseball caps and jeans. When Charles took over, they wore proper jackets and ties and well-polished shoes. According to her biographer, Sarah Bradford, the Queen regards the sloppy mode as too casual for royal princes and has had words with Diana about it. Grandma does not share Charles and Diana's relaxed approach to molding a future King. Bradford reports that at the Balmoral royal estate in Scotland six years ago, Wills gave his groom...
Being the child of the famous has always been especially hard, in part because of the danger that the child cannot live up to the parent's public success (no matter how awful the parent might have been in private). And only modest success seems a dramatic falling off: the Sean Lennon, Gary Crosby, Nancy Sinatra syndrome. But Prince William's future seems assured; he can hardly fail to surpass his father...
...preserve security, a contract was drawn between the International Industrial Bancorp Inc. of San Francisco (a company Braynin managed for its Moscow parent) and Dresner-Wickers (Dresner's consulting firm in Bedford Hills, New York). The Americans would work for four months, beginning March 1. They would be paid $250,000 plus all expenses and have an unlimited budget for polling, focus groups and other research. A week later, they were working full time, but the boss was not Soskovets...
...honey," the parent will respond, "these are very bad foods people used to eat before we all learned how unhealthy and fattening they were...
...seems there is an opposition group on every issue, and one has emerged in California that might be called the Second Wives and the Deadbeat Dads Who Love Them Club. The day after Clinton announced the new crackdown, Dianna Thompson, spokeswoman for the 5,000-member Coalition of Parent Support--and a second wife herself--appeared on the Today show to criticize child-support orders that put "a real financial burden on the second family...[and] really don't reflect the cost of raising a child...It's more like a life-style support." Now here's a group that...