Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alumni process begins in your senior year when elected representatives organize pre-commencement events as well as a class gift. The development office does not solicit contributions from undergraduates before then, but it does offer your father and mother an opportunity to give to the Parent Fund. The most notable gift to the University from parents who had no other tie to Harvard was from Mr. and Mrs. Widener who put up a library in memory of their son, Harry Elkins '06 who drowned when the Titanic sank...
...wildest expectations. Today productivity at the plant is up 16.5%, and quality-related errors are down 40%. As of last year, worker grievances had decreased 72% and lost time due to industrial accidents 43.7%. The turn-around has meant more than $1 million in gross financial benefits for the parent company, a New York-based conglomerate that had 1982 sales of $781 million...
...deciding whether minors must have the permission of a parent before getting an abortion, the court trod a fine line, rejecting the standard used in the Akron ordinance but letting a Missouri statute stand. The distinction the court made is that parental-consent laws must be flexible enough to allow a minor to show a court that she is mature enough to make the decision on her own or that the abortion is in her best interests. Antiabortion forces are sure to press for legislation that meets this definition. Nine states currently have some form of parental-consent rule...
...aware that one should not bother a parent, even the wife of a doctor, with complaints of the body. But then, you are no ordinary mother. Who else would write to her 18-year-old son, "Adieu, my darling, I kiss you tenderly with a pedal point to be sustained until the next kiss"? Small wonder that I could not bear to be parted from you, and that your death drove me to withdrawal from society and into the winding passages of Time, Memory...
...editor of Foreign Affairs can and often does play an important role in shaping U.S. foreign policy debate. The magazine enables scholars and once-and-future officials to reach an elite readership, including the members of its parent organization, the New York City-based Council on Foreign Relations. Hyland, who played a key role in negotiating SALT I, was once known as a hardliner, but in recent years has become more confident about the potential for balanced arms control agreements, and the unlikelihood of nuclear war. Said one former colleague: "He is no ideologue." A State Department analyst agreed...