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...wanted to question her about making threatening telephone calls, and in March she had been picked up in Madison, Wis., for shoplifting. On Friday morning Dann delivered poisoned food to several homes and college fraternities. She then set fire to a house where she had worked as a baby- sitter, temporarily trapping her former employer and two children in the basement (they escaped by smashing a window). Dann drove six blocks to the school; she may have been searching for her employer's other two children, who were away on field trips. Left behind in the bloody school bathroom after...
...counselors have a pretty good pitching rotation. "I never really knew what it was like to pitch a sober inning," says Ryne Duren, the Yankee reliever of the early '60s. "When I was with the Yankees in the mid-'70s," says Sudden Sam McDowell, "they hired a baby-sitter to stop me from drinking. All that did was make it a challenge...
...time with their children. Typical is Bonnie Figgatt, 38, of Madison, Conn., who works at home as a planning manager for the Travelers Cos., the corporate parent of the insurance and financial-services firm. Even though she must drive her 18-month-old son Thomas to a nearby baby-sitter every workday, Figgatt has more time for him in the morning and evening because she no longer has to commute 35 miles each way to company headquarters in Hartford. She finds her new life comparatively relaxing: "I don't miss the daily rat race, the endless meetings, the constant distractions...
...result is a program that will offer staff members a telephone-counseling service and in-house workshops. The former will be provided by Child Care Systems, Inc. Employees can call a toll-free number for help on issues ranging from how to find a last-minute baby-sitter to how to judge a prospective child-care center. For working parents unsure how to find suitable care for their children, C.C.S. will provide information tailored to their pocketbooks, locations and special needs. In each workshop, some 20 employees will share information and hear advice from experts on the care of children...
Born in a lower-middle-class subdivision in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, Minkow discovered early on that money was the magic carpet by which he could escape his humble origins. His family could not afford a baby-sitter, so after school the youngster did odd jobs for his mother at the local carpet- cleaning shop she managed. By the time he was ten years old, he was soliciting business over the phone. Five years later, in 1981, he bought some steam- cleaning equipment and set up shop in his family's garage. Unlike many entrepreneurs who give their companies...