Word: parents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...earlier interview, Kahane said that Hillel's policy was dictated by a directive from B'nai Brith, Hillel's national, parent organization, which prevents any representative of the JDL from speaking at organizations supported by B'nai Brith. Kahane said that Hillel's refusal to allow him to speak was a violation of his right to free speech and threatened a law suit if he was prevented from speaking at Hillel...
Because of the incoherence of the plaintiffs' claims, the only possible evidence for their sincerity was the determination the fundamentalist parents showed pleading their case in the courtroom. This boiled down to the determination shown by representatives like parent Vicki Frost, who stood at the witness stand for hours on end detailing a hodge-podge laundry list, citing textbook examples of everything from scientific explanations of tidal waves to witchcraft and astrology to pacifism and situational ethics...
...years or so I'll be able to." Many people who went into middle-class careers are now bitterly disappointed. Ella Parham, 39, of Boston, earns $31,400 as a third-grade teacher in the city schools but feels she has slipped into the lower class. A single parent, she supports two daughters, ages 16 and 19, and a 3-year-old grandchild. "I surely don't feel like I'm middle class," she , says. "I feel like we're at the bottom of the ladder...
...participants in this nighttime battle royal, however, insist that it is not a duel to the death. "We don't see ourselves as pitted against Johnny Carson," says Barry Diller, chairman of Fox Inc., Rivers' corporate parent. "We're just aiming at improving the performance of the independent stations that carry us." Rivers, who roused Carson's ire last spring when she left for the competition without telling him first, is also sounding a conciliatory note: "My people will watch me; Johnny's people will watch him . . . We can all make it; the pie just...
...strengthen Coca-Cola in its never-ending battle with PepsiCo for soft-drink supremacy. Coke intends to sell to the public 51% of the stock in Coca-Cola Enterprises, a mammoth group (estimated 1986 revenues: $3.2 billion) of bottling and canning operations that have been spun off from the parent company. This initial stock offering, which will be the largest in U.S. history, will raise up to $1.7 billion...