Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...players, managers and coaches. Players' salaries range from an average of about $5,000 a month on Triple A clubs, the highest level in the minors, to $700 to $1,100 a month for both Class A ball and the lowest level of professional baseball, the rookie league. The parent clubs buy equipment and pick up the tab for 75% of the meal and hotel bills when the farm teams are on the road. The expenses add up: most franchises spend between $3 million and $4 million on their minor-league affiliates. The majors pocket none of the profits...
...only do we watch the virus eat away Amanda's life, but we also watch it destroy the lives of her family and her friends. Polly and Ivan begin to argue and then cease to communicate at all, as each parent tries to justify his daughter's death. Charlie retreats into his own thoughts when his best friend's mother refuses to let Servin play with him anymore because she feels her son might catch AIDS from touching Charlie's hand...
Hoffman's portrayal of the town's reaction to Amanda's case of AIDS, however, is the most chilling apsect of the novel. The parent's associaton begins to picket Amanda's school when it learns that she will continue to take classes although she has AIDS...
...using a sink after her. Even Amanda's gymnastics coach gives in at the end. He tells Amanda that she may no longer practice gymnastics because blood from blisters on her hands might infect other team members. His evidence is a vague medical report which he is convinced a parent fabricated, but the fear in the community is too great for reason...
...Though women nominated for the hierarchy failed to win in three U.S. dioceses this year, the election of the first woman bishop appears inevitable and could occur as early as this fall. That prospect has produced fresh mutterings of schism. Last week both the Episcopal Church and its overseas parent, the Church of England, embraced ) awkward compromises to advance the cause of women clergy while mollifying members who refuse to accept them...