Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exceedingly difficult to show since the hoped-for benefits might not be expected to occur for years. If such proof were not possible, the deal could still go through if the acquiring company agreed to spin off a subsidiary, division or some other large asset so that the parent firm would be no larger than it was before the linkup. The bill is strongly opposed by the business community and is unlikely to be reported out of committee this year...
...bitter and theatrical. One night some parents carried in a child's coffin: while placard-bearing children blew out candles, a parent read a statement foretelling the death of a school because the board had marked the principal for dismissal. Other nights featured debates pitting blacks against whites, those who valued music instruction against those who wanted foreign languages. It was neighborhood against neighborhood, teachers against administration, north Evanston vs. south Evanston. "We may have generated more hostility and more unfulfilled expectations by opening debate than if we had never asked for opinions," says Board Member Mary Anne Wexler...
...than a decade. Johnny Carson, the brightest star in the insomniac firmament, was keeping network nabobs awake at night wondering whether he would indeed quit the Tonight Show before his contract runs out in April 1981. An embezzlement scandal was boiling, affiliate stations were restless and gossip was rampant. Parent Company RCA laid it all on the bottom line at its annual meeting last Tuesday. Referring to "the very low ratings of NBC programs over the past month to month and a half," RCA President and Chief Executive Edgar H. Griffiths reversed a more optimistic earlier estimate and declared: "Profit...
...very much a part of our lives during those years. A specially carpented six-foot long cabinet housing three television sets, which made it possible for my father to watch all network programming simultaneously, dominated my parent's bedroom. We called it the 'three-eyed monster' but our attitude toward the industry itself was more respectful...
...most cases, the manner of corporate withdrawal most likely to minimize loss to the parent company and maximize loss to the South African economy is the prohibition of all new investment coupled with the full repatriation of current earnings from existing operations, viz., allowing the South African affiliate to depreciate, or, in plain English, "run into the ground." Without new infusions of capital, either in the form of new investment or retained earnings, plants and equipment rapidly lose their economic value and become obsolete. Naturally, the tax code makes provision for the deprecation of assets, permitting the parent company...