Word: parents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many children are growing up in families headed by one overburdened parent, usually the mother. Even when two parents are present, both often have demanding jobs and are absorbed in their own concerns. Sometimes the parents are strung out on alcohol or drugs. The result is that children do not get the nurturing, guidance or supervision necessary to instill a set of values and a proper code of behavior...
...throughout society the issue of child carehas been a dominant one in the 1980s. As familylife and professional responsibilities have becomeinextricably linked in recent years, families nolonger have the luxury of having one parent stayhome to care for the children while the other oneworks...
...Pauley will be the first celebrity working mother ever to address a Harvard graduating class. And Pauley, whose high-profile job and marriage have resulted in publicity such as an article titled, "Jane Pauley's Charmed Life," says she will concentrate her speech on the problems facing the working parent...
...merger, as it did last year in Warner's acquisition of Lorimar Telepictures. Both Chris-Craft and Warner made concessions in reaching an agreement to no longer disagree. As part of the deal, Chris-Craft chairman Herbert Siegel will resign as a Warner director. Time Inc., the parent company of TIME's publisher, and Warner have scheduled meetings for June 23, when shareholders of each company will vote on the merger...
Those days, however, are swiftly becoming a memory. Last September TV Guide's parent company, Triangle Publications, was sold by Walter Annenberg to Australian-born press magnate Rupert Murdoch for $3 billion. Murdoch, whose worldwide properties range from tabloids like the Star to the London Times, has instigated some wrenching changes in the familiar coffee-table companion...