Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...affluent suburbanites. Today the safe and sensible Volvo has never been more popular. In a year when other auto manufacturers are struggling, Volvo's American sales are up 12.8%, and the car has passed Volkswagen as the bestselling European import. Last week the Volvo's proud Swedish parent announced that its earnings nearly doubled during the first nine months of this year, to $257 million, as sales increased...
...analysis, what does it all mean? I won my Academy Award when I was very young, and it was exciting for five or ten minutes. Sitting in bed afterward and drinking my Ovaltine, I said to Paul, 'Is that it?' Now I think being a full-time parent would be O.K. with me. With what I've learned, I'd enjoy it a lot more." Though she isn't interested in playing "mother roles" in films, she remains a mother, who, in a competitive, talented family, had the difficult job this fall of convincing their...
Racial discrimination was the loose thread, which, when repeatedly yanked by Southern Black civil rights workers, began to unravel the myth of a just society for thousands of white students in the North. This revelation, not Vietnam, inspired SDS to pull away from its democratic-socialist parent organization. Starting with a few hundred members scattered from Harvard to Berkeley, the group gradually constructed a platform which linked the students' own impatience with mainstream Democratic politics to the suffering of the non-white and the destitute. In its 1962 manifesto, The Port Huron Statement, SDS zeroed in on the links between...
...Parents reap as much pleasure from the arrangement as students, says Joan Blackett, a counselor at the Bureau of Study Counsel and a host parent. "The project is a two way street...
...CHINS petition meet with two mediators, one of whom is young and hopefully likely to elicit the child's trust. Eighty-two percent of mediations result in a written agreement between the child and the filer of the petition. This agreement includes specific concessions by both parties--a parent might promise to let his child stay out until 11:00 every night and the child would in turn promise to wash the dishes after breakfast. Over a three-month period, 60 percent of these agreements hold. Contact with the court is maintained, and probation officers continue to check...