Word: parents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...free-spirited grandmother" who moves in with her daughter's family in ABC's Life with Lucy. Elliott Gould, Ellen Burstyn and Wilford Brimley are among the other stars who will be heading TV homes this season. Pam Dawber (Mork and Mindy) becomes a roommate and surrogate parent for a runaway sibling in CBS's My Sister Sam. In ABC's Heart of the City, a police detective has himself transferred out of the SWAT unit so he can spend more time with his motherless children. And Starman, also on ABC, brings back the alien from John Carpenter...
...company less than one-third its size, Capital Cities Communications, for $3.5 billion. The chairman of the merged company, Thomas Murphy, has since trimmed 615 of 14,900 jobs. In June, General Electric absorbed front-running NBC (1985 advertising revenues: $2.7 billion) by purchasing the network's parent, RCA, for $6.3 billion. GE Executive Robert Wright will take over as NBC's president and CEO this week; he is expected to launch his own austerity program. The biggest factor in broadcast television's changing climate is that the networks no longer enjoy the hefty automatic annual increases in advertising rates...
...about efforts to jazz up -- critics said trivialize -- the division's approach to reporting the news. As discontent grew, a group of senior CBS journalists, including Anchorman Rather, 60 Minutes Executive Producer Don Hewitt and Commentator Bill Moyers, made an offer to buy the news division outright from the parent company. They were told it was not for sale...
...Stern. The case has touched off widespread debate: Is the womb a rentable space? Should the use of a surrogate mother be a legitimate option for couples who cannot have children? Or is it an odious trade in babies? While the Baby M. case is not the first surrogate-parent dispute to end up in the courts, Judge Sorkow's eventual ruling is expected to set a precedent governing the enforceability of such contracts...
Accordingly, school districts, foundations, law-enforcement authorities and parent groups are shaping more thorough programs. The National Institute on Drug Abuse figures 72% of the nation's estimated 45.3 million elementary- and secondary-school students are being offered some kind of drug education, but sometimes it may amount to only a paragraph in a health textbook. The U.S. Department of Education's funding for drug education has been so tiny that no one has kept track of it. The department, however, is now considering a $100 million program...