Word: parent
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Single parent Dianna Bennett, 43, works as a nurse at a correctional facility in Gardner, Mass. To be able to spend time with her three children during the day, she works the night shift, a schedule that usually allows her no more than four hours of sleep. "My kids tell me I'm always tired," she says. Amy Schwartzman, 35, a law student at Tulane University, gets up at 9 a.m. and, what with classes, moot court and work as a research assistant, often does not get home until 10 p.m. That's when she studies or unwinds. Nights...
...showdown with AT&T's board members in New York City, NCR management vowed to resist. But industry analysts generally believe that the big telecommunications firm will ultimately prevail, strengthening NCR in the long run. Says Maria Lewis of Shearson Lehman Bros.: "AT&T would make an ideal corporate parent." Still, the deal carries enormous financial risks for AT&T, which had tried to build a computer business from scratch, avoiding large acquisitions. "AT&T will triumph, but it may be a Pyrrhic victory," says John McCarthy, an analyst at Forrester Research. "It's buying itself a land mine...
Yolanda Raddle, a Dumas parent, marvels that her daughter Danielle, 6, can recite two poems by Langston Hughes, the gifted black writer. "I never heard of him in high school," she says. Dumas has already made a difference...
Thatcher's new home is a five-bedroom, neo-Georgian house in the suburb of Dulwich, about four miles from central London. Thatcher's daughter Carol predicts that her mother "will suffer decompression" out of office. When, for example, Carol reminded her parent that she had not set foot in a supermarket in nearly 12 years, Thatcher replied, "Of course I have. I have opened enough of them...
...remain in American hands. To reduce its $11 billion debt load, Time Warner is looking abroad for partners to take minority stakes in some of its entertainment subsidiaries. "We agree with Matsushita's concept ((of globalization)), but we disagree % with the execution," says Time Warner chairman Steven Ross. "Parent companies should keep their national identities...