Word: see
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...child who is more ready to be tucked in than talked at. "It may be that the same loss of leisure among parents produces this pressure for rapid achievement and overprogramming of children," argues Allan Carlson, president of the conservative Rockford Institute, an Illinois think tank. If parents see parenting largely as an investment of their precious time, they may end up viewing children as objects to be improved rather than individuals to be nurtured at their own pace...
...would be an invasion of privacy. Ovitz himself phoned, says Feldman, and "told me it wasn't a good idea to make this picture." (Ovitz says he was simply giving Feldman "friendly advice" that "a lot of people we deal with -- clients and nonclients -- really didn't want to see John's memory exploited.") In the summer of 1986, Jim Belushi stormed into Feldman's editing room at Paramount, trashed his desk and told the secretary, "Tell him I was here." (Her reply...
...class Mexicans who need help desperately. Says a U.S. State Department official, with considerable understatement: "The average Mexican will have to ask himself the old Reagan question, 'Am I better off than I was four years ago?' The answer will have to be yes, or we could start to see some trouble...
Washington has made clear its willingness to help Salinas quietly in any way it can, but there is a growing perception among some U.S. officials that the Mexican leader is simply running out of time. If the country does not see tangible economic rewards within the next 18 months, a U.S. official says, "we could see frustrations acted out in the streets...
...pale gray eyes ask for empathy. "See, I don't have that in me anymore. When my dad got killed, you know, I could stick a gun in somebody's head and not shake and think about it. I can't do that anymore, so I'm getting out. I've got money put aside...