Word: parents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only two weeks ago, it looked as if Frontier would have a quite different fate. Texas Air Chairman Frank Lorenzo had offered to buy 60% of the outstanding stock of Frontier Holdings, the airline's parent company, for $20 a share, topping a $17-a-share bid made by four of Frontier's five unions. Frontier's employees, though, were anxious to avoid dealing with Lorenzo, whom they consider anti-union. In 1981, he bought Continental Airlines and two years later declared bankruptcy in order to get out of costly union contracts. In August, TWA's unions joined forces with...
Even Yale parents took little offense at the shorts take. "They are the nicest bunch of kids. They are so sweet and kind and considerate," said Susan E. Feinberg, a Yale parent who was marching with her son as part of Parent's Weekend. "They aren't hooligans, just a bunch of kids which a terrific sense of humor who probably just got a little carried away...
...College supported its position of allowing in-house drinking by the legal theory of in loco parentis, which held that house masters and freshman advisors were acting as students' surrogate parents. The theory would be a rather dubious defense in court. As one house master said, "I don't feel like the parent to 365 kids." The real idea was that students are going to drink anyway, and it might as well be in an orderly, supervised fashion. But under public scrutiny, such enlightened policies have got to give...
...core of heavy-metal diehards will know that Gore gets the lyrics a little askew. Not many others may even have heard of W.A.S.P. Tipper Gore, wife of Senator Albert Gore Jr., and some other well-connected women in Washington are changing all that. They have banded together as Parents Music Resource Center (P.M.R.C.) and, with the National Parent-Teacher Association, want everyone to know that rock-'n'-roll music has gone too far. "The music industry is cashing in on shock value, and parents have said, 'That's it--no further,' " says Ann Kahn, president of the NPTA...
...pocketful of miracles; they got a couple of lucky breaks. Already on the boards was a proposal by local and state authorities to renovate the ball park. Encouraged by that, Fowler and Larson went to the winter baseball meetings in Houston looking for a major-league affiliate, a parent, but got no takers. Desperate for somebody in baseball to take them seriously, Fowler searched his mind and hit upon a natural...