Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...runner-up status among petroleum refiners behind giant Exxon, it has earned a reputation for being combative and controversial. While some oil companies were worried about the political impact of venturing into other areas of business, Mobil jumped into retailing by spending $1.8 billion to buy Marcor, the parent company of Montgomery Ward...
...secretary, Kate Worthington (Julia Newton). As they sit in the V.I.P. lounge waiting for Baldwin's flight to be announced, he begins to ask her about her past. Kate tells him how she no longer wishes to see her mother, being scornful of such "insidious apathy" with which her parent seems afflicted. The mother seems to have returned to Tennessee, whence she came. "Ah, I used to have a weakness for Southern belles," declares our hero; the plot thickens. Well, it appears Kate's father abandoned them before her birth... After drawing out the quasi-suspense...
...NCAA had taken a hard line with the CFA, and the college football powers had gone through with their threat to act independently of the parent organization, the NCAA would have lost any remaining control over the CFA in all areas, including recruiting and academic standards. By making the compromise the NCAA has retained jurisdiction over its most frequent offenders...
...major proponents for the change in requirements were members of the College Football Association (CFA), a splinter group of the NCAA which has recently come into conflict with the parent organization over television contracts...
That's just the way they are.' " Throughout the shooting, Hepburn played the fond or firm parent to Jane?so much so that Jane says, "I couldn't help fantasizing what would have happened if she and my dad had become lovers 40 years ago, and Kate had been my mother." It was Hepburn whose daunting presence made Jane realize she would have to perform a key scene?a difficult backflip into Golden Pond herself?without a stunt woman. Mama Kate's lesson: "If a child never learns to overcome its fears it will become soggy...