Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...become Treasury Secretary, Wriston would have had to sell $2.3 million worth of stock in the parent company of Citibank, which has claims against the assets that Iran wants to trade for return of the American hostages and which participates in Government-guaranteed loans to New York City and Chrysler Corp. At week's end, Wriston's aides said that he was not interested...
...away from technical tasks. Others stress that high school coincides with the onset of puberty, when girls become more interested in boys than in building skills like math. Since the rise of feminism, however, female underachievement in math has been generally chalked up to sexism: the low expectations of parents and teachers are said to produce a 'reverse Pygmalion effect." According to Educator Elizabeth Fennema and Psychologist Julia Sherman, in an article on the subject, "Sexual stereotyping of mathematics as a male domain operates through a myriad of subtle influences from peer to parent and within the girl herself...
...became the first major industrial robot buyer by ordering more than 50 welders. Today GM has 270 robots, and there are more than 3,000 at work throughout the U.S. The biggest manufacturer, Unimation Inc., of Danbury, Conn., was founded in 1959 and cost its parent company, Condec, at least $12 million before making its first profit in 1975. It now produces 40 Unimate and 15 Puma robots a month, and will have estimated sales this calendar year of $42 million. Its chief competitor: Cincinnati Milacron, which makes the sophisticated T3 robot and expects 1980 sales of $32 million...
Half a century passed before Galileo's question was answered. In a 1659 treatise, Systema Saturnium. Dutch Astronomer Christiaan Huygens correctly deduced the the ears of Saturn were a distinct ring, disconnected from the parent planet and slightly tilted as observed from the earth. From a terrestrial perspective the ears would periodically vanish because the angle of vision changed during Saturn's voyage around the sun. A superb telescope-maker, Huygens also discovered Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and calculated the time it took the ringed planet Huygens make a single journey around the sun (nearly...
...challenge of national competition and ran her finest race of the season. For McCarthy, who's spent most of the fall battling injuries, it was a gratifying way to end the season. For Diaz, whose mother made the trip out from Chicago, it earned her a proud parent and a dinner for the team on the dockside of beautiful Puget Sound...