Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Twister" is simply another product, albeit an important one, which will affect the health of the Time Warner entertainment octopus. Who ever said that American firms weren't cooperative? At the behest of Time Warner, the consumer is forced to experience intense marketing pressure from all arms of the parent company, even through non-commercial venues such as Time's news division, which seeks to sell its wares to a captive public...
...report, in no small coincidence, lauds revenue increases from Sports Illustrated and People in the publishing division but makes not a mention of Time. At the earnings hierarchy that is Time Warner, it doesn't matter what the subsidiary does so much as its pecuniary contribution to the parent company...
...signs of Wachner's clout and wealth were evident, from the Gulfstream jet she arrived in to her heart-shaped, five-carat diamond ring to the coterie of executives who trailed in her wake. It was a retinue befitting the chairman and CEO of Warnaco Group, Inc., Hathaway's parent, primarily a manufacturer of intimate apparel, with sales last year of $916 million...
...Douglas Nelson, executive director of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, puts it, "It may well be that the nation cannot survive--as a decent place to live, as a world-class power or even as a democracy--with such high rates of children growing into adulthood unprepared to parent, unprepared to be productively employed and unprepared to share in mainstream aspirations...
...verdict may be alarming to any parent who has ever come up against the intransigence, sneakiness or willfulness of a child--which is to say, just about every parent of an adolescent. In recent years, states have championed a variety of approaches to stemming the nation's soaring juvenile-crime rate, from boot camp to charging children with adult crimes. Among the most popular--and controversial--are laws that hold parents accountable for the sins of their children. In 1995 alone, 10 states and a number of communities enacted sanctions against parents, from counseling to jail time...