Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Armstrong has leveraged his stock's rising value in a series of bold deals, including a joint venture announced last week with the country's No. 1 cable provider, Time Warner (parent company of Time). The deal--which still needs the approval of another Time Warner partner and possibly that of local regulators--would give AT&T exclusive access for 20 years to Time Warner cable systems, which reach 12.6 million subscribers in 33 states. Starting next year, AT&T would provide local-phone service through the same wires that carry cable TV, thus circumventing the regional-Bell local-phone...
...million Total cost to Time Warner, TIME's parent company, of building the stadium in the first place...
...changes would be significant if they reflected the difference made in individual districts by state rulings. Raul Ugarte, a parent in Antioch, Calif., sued his school district five years ago after it refused to take action against a boy who was sexually harassing and threatening to kill his fifth-grade daughter Tianna. Ugarte won a $450,000 judgment, and the school district fired the superintendent...
...less formulated a viable strategy for combatting them. And consider the Tub Rug, a temperature-sensitive bath mat on which the words TOO HOT! appear under appropriate circumstances. It is almost embarrassing to admit, but we had been using a system, devised during the 19th century, in which a parent feels the water and, if it's too hot, says...
...about the college-admission prospects of the grandchildren? As methods are perfected of enhancing a college application through increasingly expensive services--one young man mentioned in the magazine article had $25,000 worth of SAT preparation--it might become more important to have a parent who's a Wall Street millionaire than to have smart-kid genes. Maybe it would be prudent to add a sentence to those ads in college papers: "Preference given to respondents in the lower third of the class...