Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wish they wouldn't have accepted her at all," said one incensed parent of his commuter-daughter. "I think it's a slap in the face." A long-time Harvard administrator argued that foreing a specific group to live at home was comparable to exiling them to a leper colony--not the kind of move likely to improve community relations...
...perceptions that shape such changes, the editors periodically drop or merge old departments and start new ones. Last year two new sections were added, Design and Video. This week marks the introduction of TIME's newest department, Computers. No section is ever christened without deliberate second-guessing and parent-like worry. But the decision this time seemed both easy and logical. Simply put, a Computers section added up. As TIME said in its 1978 cover story "The Computer Society," the new microtechnology is akin in significance to the moment prehistoric man first wrapped his fingers around a rock, thereupon...
...reform, intended to undermine the veto power formerly held by committee chairmen, was to give subcommittees funding and staffing independent of their parent committees, especially in the House. In the Senate, 16 new Republicans were elected in 1980, and every one of them chairs at least one and more often two influential subcommittees. New York Republican Alfonse D'Amato, who is considered something of a legislative featherweight by congressional observers, chairs three subcommittees: Urban and Rural Development, Securities, and District of Columbia...
Atari, which marketed a home version of Pac-Man only last month, just helped Warner Com, its parent company, post a record 57% increase in first-quarter profits. In 1982, according to San Francisco Securities Analyst Ted James, Atari, the world's largest supplier of home-video consoles and cartridges, should sell around $400 million worth of coin-operated video games and some $1.3 billion worth of the home-video consoles and cartridges. This represents a revenue for Warner almost six times that of their record business, five times that of the film division and about 47 times that...
...UNIVERSITY HALL office this fall the phone never stopped ringing. Sometimes the secretary from the neighboring Parent's Association would run over to take a message; occasionally the director himself would be there. But much of the time the phone in the Race Relations Foundation was allowed to ring--there was simply no one around to answer...