Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death of Habibie's real father in 1950. Suharto, a military officer, befriended the family and closed the old man's eyes on his deathbed. Habibie, then 13, has revered his protector ever since. In his autobiography, Suharto wrote of the protege that he "regards me as his own parent. He always asks for my guidance and takes down notes on [my] philosophy...
...prisoners, were given offices and mobile phones in the hope that they would begin worrying about funding targets, not bombing targets. In central Londonderry, every other street corner seems to house the offices of some worthy center dispensing advice, trying to foster peace. Teresa McKeever, the manager of a parent-and-toddler association in Creggan, a Catholic district in Londonderry, brings mothers and children from her area to join in a weekend in the country with mothers and kids from Tullyally, a Protestant area. The talk is generally nonpolitical, but, says McKeever, "it's really all about the future...
...five, I was abducted first by one parent and then, when found, by the other. Dragged from home to home, country to country, state to state, I was hidden for years before the FBI found me. I was then returned to the original abductor, who forever vilified my other parent. As a result, I am estranged from both parents. Having gone through it, I can't say if it was worse to be abducted or to be found. I can say the abduction indelibly marked me. I beg parents who contemplate kidnapping their children to reconsider. Abducting a child often...
...Still, there are powerful incentives for NBC and TNT (owned by Time Warner, the parent of this web site) to make this league work. Even with diminished ratings, football offers one of the last true mass audiences that advertisers crave. And at least the pair will be losing money with their own pigskin...
...never met one parent or teacher or student or principal or even computer salesman who claimed that insufficient data is the root of the problem. With an Internet connection, you can gather the latest stuff from all over, but too many American high school students have never read one Mark Twain novel or Shakespeare play or Wordsworth poem, or a serious history of the U.S.; they are bad at science, useless at mathematics, hopeless at writing--but if they could only connect to the latest websites in Passaic and Peru, we'd see improvement? The Internet, said President Clinton...