Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SIHL's dazzling performance is one lure for investors, but an even bigger one is the company's reputation for guanxi, or political connections. They emanate from SIHL's parent, known as SIIC, or the Shanghai Industrial Investment (Holdings) Co., with interests in more than 200 businesses around the world. SIIC is owned by the Shanghai city government. Not to be ignored is the fact that China's State President, Jiang Zemin, is a former mayor of Shanghai. "The name of the game in China is relationships," explains Kent Rossiter, a senior investment analyst at Nikko Securities Co. (Asia). "Shanghai...
...boomer law of cultural tyranny, if the boomers are having families, then we must all turn our attention to the problems of families. Newspapers, magazines, advertising and especially politics are consumed with the subject. Baby boomers have even invented a verb to describe this new craze: "to parent," which suggests the rearing of children is just another one of life's many options--a means of self-fulfillment like mountain biking or enrolling in a clogging class...
Whereas in many other countries and cultures, the nuclear family survives a university education and often well beyond one, whether under one physical roof or simply in the same city, in America, the dynamics of the parent-child relationship changes forever once high school is over. In France, for example, it is very common for students to attend university in their home city and live with their parents, or to spend another year at home preparing their Baccalaureate. Similarly in Israel, 18-year-olds who enter the army often split their time between the base and home, and then live...
...opus, paid for by 18 federal agencies, probably got the attention it did because it offers so much comfort to parents whose little Mary doesn't make a move without calling her pal Molly, while treating Mom like a potted plant. "The power and the importance of parents continue to persist, even into late adolescence," says University of Minnesota professor Michael Resnick, the lead author of the survey. A reassuring finding: although your child may seem to ignore you, she is living off the remnants of the bond built during the years before getting her ears pierced was the most...
...amount is based on Turner's personal profits on Time Warner stock since the corporation merged with CNN parent Turner Broadcasting last year. "I figure its only nine months' earnings, who cares?" Turner said. He also promised to prod similar donations from other billionaires, warning that they should expect his fund-raising calls...