Word: parent
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...landmark across the street: Saks Fifth Avenue. In what would probably result in the biggest Japanese stake in American retailing, the Tobu department store conglomerate, together with the managers of Saks, has offered to purchase the Manhattan icon and the 45 other Saks stores from their London-based parent, B.A.T. Industries...
...what is a parent to do? In their book, Carlsson-Paige and Levin, who both / raised sons who were attracted to war-related toys, offer tips for combatting unimaginative play. Among them...
...cafeteria at Chicago's Morgan Park High School was jammed, and tempers were rising. Only a week earlier, the school's new eleven-member, parent-led governing council had voted not to renew principal Walter Pilditch's contract. The move had sparked violent protests among students, parents and teachers, resulting in seven injuries and ten arrests. Now council president Calvin Pearce was gamely trying to get on with other pressing matters...
...Some parent-power advocates say that allegations of racism are part of a campaign to undermine the city's experiment in school-based management. Others play down the tensions. "There may be some places where issues of race and ethnicity overrule competence, but overall that is a small percentage," says Michael Bakalis, professor of education policy at Loyola University in Chicago and a former state superintendent of education...
...classroom raised a furor when it was introduced last year. It also inspired a shrewd countermove by Atlanta cable kingpin Ted Turner. Starting last September, Turner's Cable News Network began offering a classroom newscast of its own, without commercials. (Time Warner Inc. owns 18% of CNN's parent, Turner Broadcasting Co., and 50% of Whittle Communications.) The 15-minute show, CNN Newsroom, is telecast each morning at 3:45; schools with cable can tape it and play it back later in the day. Turner's nonprofit venture does not offer free equipment, but many cable operators have agreed...