Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first step to acceptance--of a spouse, a parent or a television program--is to honestly acknowledge that person's or program's flaws. To us dissenters, the problem with Frasier is that it is not as smart as it thinks it is. Merely mentioning Biedermeier should not pass for wit. Of course, the show makes fun of Frasier and his twittering brother, while Martin, an ex-cop, is intended to provide an earthy contrast to them. But viewers are still supposed to find the Crane boys sophisticated and lovable and ever ready with the withering riposte. Au contraire, they...
...Lewinsky interviewed with Allyn Seidman, senior vice president [of Revlon's parent company]...and two individuals at Revlon. Ms. Lewinsky testified that the interviews went well and that Ms. Seidman called her back that day and "informally offered [her] a position, and [she] informally accepted...
...going to propose that a commercial American TV network make a many-part series on the cold war, it helps to be the boss. In 1994, while CNN's founder, Ted Turner (vice chairman of Time Warner, the parent company of CNN and TIME), was in Russia attending the Goodwill Games, another of his enterprises, he had a revelation. "It just hit me," he says, "that the cold war really was over and the world needed a documentary record of this conflict." A great admirer of The World at War, the classic syndicated series about World War II, Turner sought...
Other companies that took major hits were transportation stocks whose business involves trade and travel: the parent companies of such airlines as American, United and Delta. Companies like Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble and Gillette, which not long ago were praised for their successful penetration of global markets, last week were punished harshly through stock sell-offs. General Electric, the world's most valuable public corporation and one of the most admired, fell 22%, losing $68 billion of its market value...
...immutable reality about us adoptees is that each of us has two sets of parents: one who gave life, the other who provided nurture. Eliminate either one, and there wouldn't be much of a child left for families to quibble over. Show me a parent who freely sets aside his or her own fears and insecurities to accept that truth about the child, and I'll show you a real parent. MARCY WINEMAN AXNESS Calabasas, Calif...