Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shuttered businesses and struggling schools they endured because their property-tax bases weren't robust enough to support decent schools. "Was it fair for [rich towns] to have an advantage when somebody else's fundamental rights--in this case, a public education--were being denied?" asks Allen Gilbert, a parent from working-class Worcester. Spreading the burden through the state, says Randolph school-board member Laura Soares, whose town can now afford to build a new elementary school after a 30-year wait, "is the moral thing to do." And, the receivers contend, the wealthy are not only selfish...
Helen Schulman has proved once again the incredible selfishness of human beings who claim they want to be parents, but only if they are parents of their own biological children [BOOK EXCERPT, May 18]. I believe she truly mourns the loss of the babies that were spontaneously aborted, but what of the child whose parents "spontaneously abort" their role as caregiver? With the world as overpopulated as it is, could Schulman not parent one of those children? After all, she herself said, "The person I saw myself as was a person who took care of a child." Not just...
Weld is not likely to dwell on politics in hisspeech today. The day is personal, and Weld canrelate to the audience, both as a Harvard studentand a parent...
...parent company, General Electric, had a "general preference for lawyers," Rowe explains, and he got an offer...
...News article made another noteworthy observation: that "Ivy League students...have remarkably stable families." An astounding 86 percent of Ivy Leaguers were raised in two parent homes, strongly implying that our opportunity to study at Harvard may be linked to the stability of our home lives. Regardless of the make-up of our individual families, our parents sacrificed much of their own happiness to provide for our education, and even the financial aid that many of us depend upon is a direct result of someone else's altruistic desire to give up part of their own pleasure for our enrichment...