Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Roberto C. Goizueta, 52, board chairman of Coca-Cola, the parent company of Columbia Pictures, on his lack of box-office acumen: "When I came out of [Columbia's] Ghostbusters, I thought, 'Gee, we're going to lose our shirts...
PepsiCo is a parent corporation for six operating divisions which include Pepsi-Cola, Frito-Lay and Taco Bell...
...settlement lifted the Government's yearlong freeze on Rich's U.S. assets. In return, the Swiss company paid back about $130 million that was owed to 14 U.S. and European banks. The agreement allowed another Rich firm to sell its 50% stake in TCP Holdings, the parent company of 20th Century-Fox. Rich, a secret partner with Denver Oilman Marvin Davis in the 1981 purchase of the film studio, sold his shares to Davis last week for a reported $116 million...
Observing 100 adults and children in 20 New York-metropolitan-area families, Giacquinta's researchers found that virtually every parent bought a computer in the hope that it would help a child get ahead in school. At the same time, most adults feared that the machines were being used too much for playing games...
...have had in mind all along: a recovering Sam and Tom talk of their differences only to reaffirm them. Not even a brush with violent death will bring the older man to guilt and confession, or the younger one to recognize that a child's claim on a parent may be something less than absolute. The dialogue, believable throughout the book, is at its best in this encounter. Speaking with rage and regret, Sam says to his son, "You still have hurty eyes...