Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...journalist, I am disturbed by the report's sensationalist tone. As an adoptive parent, I am outraged by its categorical depiction of orphanages as "death camps." Far smaller political squalls recently caused the suspension of foreign adoptions in Paraguay and Ukraine. If China follows suit, some children will lose what at the moment is their best hope for a future...
...QualMed's Hasan formally agreed to merge their companies. The merger triggered a "termination agreement" under which Greaves would receive a lump-sum payment of $1.1 million because technically he had been terminated from his former positions--even though he became cochairman and co-chief executive of the parent of the merged companies, Health Systems International, a job that paid a base salary of $865,000. "I gave up my sole authority as president, chairman and ceo," says Greaves, "and my contract said if that happens you get paid out your contract. So as any businessman would--anybody would...
...letter to one of my predecessors about the "enemy casualty" of World War II makes the point. Attending the Baccalaureate service for his son in the early 1970s, a parent noticed the designation on the World War II tablet, and wrote, "Surely the influence of Harvard University on the lives of these young men should have created within them something more enduring and worthy of commemoration than the fact that largely due to no fault of their own they found themselves under the necessity of fighting as 'enemies' against the land and people with whom they had shared the riches...
Demographics don't have to be destiny, but other social trends do little to contradict the dire predictions. Nearly all the factors that contribute to youth crime--single-parent households, child abuse, deteriorating inner-city schools--are getting worse. At the same time, government is becoming less, not more, interested in spending money to help break the cycle of poverty and crime. All of which has led John J. DiIulio Jr., a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton, to warn about a new generation of "superpredators," youngsters who are coming of age in actual and "moral poverty,'' without...
...beating. Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine and Lela Rochon play to a new black female stereotype that is in some ways more damaging than the ones it replaces: the young professional woman who can excel in a demanding job, be a successful single mother and support her aging parent, yet who is abjectly clueless about defending herself from exploitative males--the romantically stunted career-girl stereotype that Hollywood has already perfected for white women. "One of the things I was hoping to accomplish was to point out that we as women often choose men who aren't necessarily healthy...