Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Parents who have had to suffer through the games, the TV series and shopping trips can take some comfort in the fact that the Pokemon demographic is the same one that has abandoned Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers. What may be harder to survive is the relentlessness of Pokemania, a multimedia and interactive barrage like no other before it, with children mesmerized into cataloging a menagerie of multiplicative monsters, with trading cards linked to games linked to television shows linked to toys linked to websites linked to candy linked back to where you started--a pestilential Ponzi scheme...
First, nonsmokers should remember there is more to tobacco companies than tobacco. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Web site, www.getoutraged.com, not only continues the themes of their well-placed, blunt ads but has a "secrets" section that shows the links between the tobacco parent companies and a lot of seemingly unrelated industries. The site has a number of get-involved resources for smokers and nonsmokers alike, as well as snippets of the internal industry memos that suggested targeting minors through give-aways and cartoon characters like Joe Camel was a way to ensure the industry's future...
Through a cigarette-smoke-turned-dollar-sign link, the Web site shows that a fraction of the money you spend on Entemann's, Altoids, Philadelphia cream cheese, Jell-O or any Kraft or Miller product makes its way up the corporate system to the parent company, Philip Morris. Maybe such diversification should be lauded, not boycotted, but the fact that Philip Morris has been exploiting its connections to Kraft to get its name on public-service (or self-service?) spots during televised weekend sporting events might make you reconsider how those alliances function and for whom. The same could easily...
Without fanfare and with little overt security, Gore helped his daughters move in and attended Freshman Parent's Weekend...
...their view, it is no accident that fairy tales with wicked stepparents, like "Cinderella," can be found in every culture. The French even have a proverb for this: "Quand la femme se remarie ayant enfants, elle leur fait un ennemi pour parent" (The mother of babes who elects to re-wed/Has taken their enemy into...