Word: parents
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This biological emphasis comports comfortably with the plots and subplots about betrayals by children. Such events do not pale before death; they become even more horrifying, because children are every parent's attempt at immortality. When sons and daughters assert their wills, they issue the last reminder of the permanence of the grave. -- W.A.H...
...CFM56 has no real rival, because Pratt & Whitney scuttled its plans to build a similar model. The engine builder, a division of Connecticut's United Technologies, cut development plans in the 1970s under the parent company's acquisitive chairman, Harry Gray. "Instead of building this engine, Gray * bought Otis Elevator. It was a monstrous mistake," says Wolfgang Demisch, who follows the industry for the Union Bank of Switzerland. The company later suffered "a market-share erosion as severe as any I can bring to mind," said Demisch...
...parent is going to pay $18,000 a year to go to school, he's going to send his kid to Harvard or Yale," Cingiser says. "I don't necessarily think that the education he'll get at those schools is superior than the one he'll get here, but the prestige is greater. Last year there were 11 kids on Harvard's roster who we recruited and there were no kids on our roster whom Harvard recruited...
...delivery contests, price wars and new-product campaigns. "It's an all-out conflagration," says Charles Henderson, vice president of marketing for Godfather's Pizza, the fifth largest U.S. chain (586 outlets). "This will make burger wars look like a neighborhood skirmish." Rather than fight it out, Pillsbury, the parent firm of Godfather's, has decided to sell the chain. Herman Cain, president of Godfather's, is leading a management takeover of the restaurants...
Other institutions in society also play an important role in the development of young people--especially families, schools, and communities of faith. But only a minority of children will live their entire youth in a two-parent family, and the time they spend with adults of any kind has been dropping steadily for several decades. Schools are often preoccupied with problems of racial integration, political intervention, drugs, and strikes while suffering the effects of a long-term decline in the status of teachers. Religious institutions no long seem as able as they once were to impart basic values...