Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston Herald gave word that it had information about Harvard which, if printed, would leave no Harvard parent "whose blood would no boil and who would not stamp his feet with indignation...
...Euphemism. What Juin said was a stunning surprise. "I believe," he said, "the solution lies in a federative status that would leave Algeria largely free of central control and would include a man aging government adapted to the country's own personality." The parent country, he added, should "only intervene in matters relating to the general economy, foreign relations and internal security...
...firms to let Canadian investors buy stock in their profitable Canadian subsidiaries. Largely responsible for the aggravation was a kink in the tax agreements between the two countries. A Canadian subsidiary that was 95% U.S.-owned paid only a 5% tax on the dividends it remitted to the parent company in the U.S. If the proportion of U.S. ownership dropped below 95%, the dividend tax rose to 15%. Rather than have dividend taxes tripled, U.S. companies shied away from selling stock to Canadians...
Beginning Nov. 1, the Mexican assembly plants of foreign auto firms will have to use Mexican cotton to pay for car and truck parts imported from their parent companies. To do business, the companies will have to make deals with a broker to try to sell Mexican cotton abroad. The companies then can import an equivalent value in car parts. Hard hit will be the U.S. Big Three-General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. If they manage to continue importing parts at the current rate (an estimated $60 million a year), the Big Three will have to market...
Advice for Parents. The clinic's advice to parents of Mongoloid children: even though the child will eventually be committed to an institution, keep him in the home as long as possible. In early years, Mongoloids are happy, playful and easily manageable. It is often the parents who need treatment. As a "parent counselor," Dr. Koch has to deal with marital tensions. "The problem is that these women don't want to have children again, and it often causes sexual incompatibility. I urge them to have children. It takes their guilt feelings away...