Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SHOW YOU A LOSER. Miller Chairman John A. Murphy has been known to take satisfaction out of wiping his feet on an office rug bearing the familiar eagle logo of Anheuser-Busch. Over at Anheuser-Busch, Chairman August Busch III has reportedly disparaged Miller's parent company, Philip Morris Inc. of New York City, by making derogatory remarks about "tobacco people" and lecturing his executives on the effects of smoking...
...Edward Acker predicted that the company would make a profit during the current quarter. Declining passenger traffic and cut-rate fares pushed income down for other carriers. American Airlines saw earnings tumble 98% to $466,000; Trans World Corp. posted a 27% decline to $41.6 million; UAL, Inc., parent company of United Airlines, suffered a 36% slump to $5.5 million; and Delta saw profits shrink 52% to $23 million...
...bought Reliance Electric Corp. of Cleveland for $1.2 billion, which was roughly twice as much as many industry analysts thought the firm was worth. Exxon has since discovered that its synthesizer is too expensive to be practical, and Reliance last year earned a mere $31 million for its new parent...
Last week Caltech, J.P.L.'s parent institution, which operates under contract with NASA, announced Murray's successor: former Air Force Chief of Staff General Lew Allen Jr., 56. The appointment continues a trend to garb the U.S. space program in Air Force blue. Earlier this year Air Force Major General James Abrahamson was put in charge of the shuttle. Former Air Force Secretary Hans Mark is NASA'S deputy administrator, the agency's No. 2 job. And the shuttle wears symbolic wings; through fiscal 1985, a fourth of its missions will be for the Air Force...
...speaking for women," says Novelist Anne Tyler. "Basically I agree with everything they say, but I find myself wanting to disagree be cause of the way they say it. If people like me, who are prowomen, are put off by it, imagine other people." Or imagine a sympathetic parent, particularly a father, leafing through the beginning of a feminist guide to child rearing and banging a shin on the following parenthesis: "(See Chapter 24 for a full discussion of language as an exclusionary tool of male supremacy)." Imagine getting to Chapter 24; imagine turning the page...