Word: parently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...house extracurricular organizations and serve as a center for student life. This decision came after surveying undergraduates on the question of how the money should be spent. The council's decision accurately reflects the wishes of their constituents and for this they should be commended. The University, a negligent parent indeed, should be ashamed...
That falls in the category of the psychotic parent approach. Some of my friends are even prone to this approach, and I love them for it. For some reason, the overreaction doesn't bother me as much coming from them. But from Mom, since she's always like that, whether I'm sick or well, I find it best to tell her that I'm great. Even if I'm about to keel over...
...came as no suprise that the government would miss its self-imposed March 31 deadline for Y2K compliance. Like a child badly in need of a parent-teacher conference, the government has problems meeting deadlines. The Y2K status report announcement, made late Wednesday by the White House Office of Management and Budget, was succinct. Three federal agencies -- the Transportation Department, Health and Human Services, and the Agency for International Development -- have made little or no progress in winnowing out the Y2K bug. Only 80 percent of key government computers have been given a clean bill of health. The cost...
...judgement is it would not be in the interest of the child," Wilmut said. "I think it would generate unacceptable expectations in the parent as to how the child should...
...toward the political. Throwaway Dads: The Myths and Barriers That Keep Men from Being the Fathers They Want to Be, co-authored with Ross D. Parke (Houghton Mifflin), is tinged with resentment and launches a multipronged attack on what Brott feels is a lingering bias against the male parent who would rather fix his children's breakfast than get a head start on the morning commute. "Margaret Mead once said fathers are a biological necessity but a social accident," Brott and Parke write. "Throughout much of the 19th and 20th centuries, our culture has been trying very hard to make...