Word: parents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...convenience store near Quincy House has restricted the number of high school students allowed in the store in response to a surge in shoplifting, a spokesperson of the store's parent company said last week...
Kevin J. Curtis, operations supervisor for Sage's parent company, said the rule had been adopted because the store's small staff cannot monitor the eight or 10 teenagers who usually enter the store when school lets...
Collecting baseball cards was once every parent's idea of a nice quiet hobby. The only noise it inspired was the popping of bubble gum. But this month LJN Toys will introduce baseball cards that produce their own chatter when inserted into a battery-operated player called Sportstalk. On tiny vinyl records that have been laminated on the back of each baseball card, players from Hank Aaron to Los Angeles Dodger Kirk Gibson reminisce for some two minutes apiece about their famous moments on the field. The retail price for the machine with four cards will be $28; additional four...
...this case, however, the justice could hardly be described as poetic. Both sides have, in a sense, got exactly what they wanted -- only to find that perhaps they should not have wanted it after all. In banning the book, various wise bodies have ignored the truth that every parent knows: a prohibition is often an invitation in disguise. And in making his Valentine's Day call for massacre, Khomeini seems to have gone beyond overkill to hubris: unlike, say, the Christians who opposed The Last Temptation of Christ, he appears unwilling to let God take care of ultimate justice himself...
...meantime, what is a worried parent to do? Jackson counsels caution but still recommends that children get a steady diet of fresh fruits and vegetables, organically grown if possible. And he warns people not to let their fears push them into food foolishness. "I wouldn't want parents to go back to Big Macs," he says, "because they're concerned about the broccoli...