Word: pta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...affluent suburbanite. He lives with his wife Liba in Westchester County, near New York City, and likes nothing better than to hang around the house on weekends, playing tennis or going for a swim in his pool. While he does not look like someone who would frighten even a PTA board, he is a scourge to the giants of corporate America. Last week newspapers across the U.S. carried full-page ads with the scare headline IS ICAHN FOR REAL? The ads were part of a counterattack by Phillips Petroleum against Icahn's attempt to take over the firm...
...Real Estate Developer John Zaccaro three days after passing the bar examination, Ferraro's law career came second to raising her three children. She worked part time in her husband's office and, incurably active, dropped in on the local Democratic club on her way home from PTA meetings and children's ballet classes...
...pursue. The new Black studies programs around the country are only the most recent, and newsworthy, examples of this. Any action by anyone which seeks to limit the freedom of the University to offer courses smacks of censorship, and is distressingly similar to the recurrent incidents in which PTA's try to get books with dirty words removed from school curricula, or vigilantes try to remove such works from public libraries...
...School in Connecticut. As the school's artist-in-residence, she flies through fairy tales, acts out scenes from Shakespeare and introduces the youngsters to the poetry of Whitman, Shelley and Tennyson. From parents she gets a standing ovation. Last month the Cos Cob PTA held a fund-raising party with 1,000 guests paying $1 a head. Reason: the local school budget does not cover her salary, and the PTA must raise $3,000 a year to keep Phillips in the classroom. The parents are happy to get involved, says Principal Dominic Butera, because they get "very excited...
Certainly, in middle-class communities, parents are flocking to help out their schools. PTA membership jumped by 70,000 in the past school year, reversing a 20-year decline. Washington State PTA President Mary Ann Laramore notes that four years ago, $3,000 was considered a big budget for a PTA, but today "we're seeing budgets of $10,000 to $12,000." The Smoke Rise Elementary School in the Atlanta suburb of Stone Mountain boasts a lab with 14 Apple II computers, 13 of which were bought by the PTA. The Lafayette parent group in Washington, B.C., which...