Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...information overload resulting from a visit to the center is enough to intimidate the most optimistic high school student or delight the most over-achieving parent. There's nothing like a display of how intimately Harvard has been connected to the most minute and unimportant events in American history to make a hopeful parent beam and a stressed-out kid cringe. The info center has a timeline displayed on computer that goes into the details of all of Harvard's history, more than even the Crimson Key Society could handle. There is such a thing as too much Harvard trivia...
Anyone who's been a kid knows that a parent's obsession is pretty hard for a kid to avoid taking on, if only subconsciously. (Within half-a-dozen years, of course, Emily might easily be doing the Deepak Chopra thing just to drive her mother crazy.) So while the idea of testing TT was all Emily's, her parents were only too eager to bring her up to speed on the scientific method and statistical analysis. Moreover, mother and stepfather, along with Dr. Stephen Barrett, chairman of an outfit called Quackwatch Inc., helped her write the paper. Linda...
...selling a family jewel, Samuel I. ("Si") Newhouse Jr., chairman of Random House's parent company, Advance Publications, proved that he could read a market as well as a book. And publishing is not a pretty story. Costs have been skyrocketing in a market shaken by high advances, torpid sales and power struggles with superstore book chains. In a statement, Newhouse said the company had reached a "decision to focus its efforts on the management and expansion of its core business of newspapers, magazines, business journals and cable...
Many are asking: If the law cannot effectively go after the kids, can it not punish the parents? According to the National Conference of State Legislatures in Denver, 42 states have enacted laws making parents responsible in one form or another for their children's crimes. Of those states, 17 make parents criminally liable, sometimes with the threat of hefty fines and jail time. California's 1988 antigang law is one of the toughest. The state's Parental Responsibility Act makes parents liable for inadequate supervision, with penalties of up to a year in jail and $2,500 fines. Arkansas...
Much harder to dismiss are child access prevention laws (or CAP laws), which hold adults--often parents and legal guardians--accountable if they allow guns to fall into underage hands. Shannan Wilber, attorney at the Youth Law Center in San Francisco, says that unlike parent-responsibility laws, CAP laws draw a direct causal relationship between adults and the crimes committed by juveniles. "Where there is a closer connection," she says, "such as a parent's possession of firearms and failure to keep them away from their kids, it's easier to connect that to a subsequent criminal...