Word: stayed
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While kids grow more frazzled, parents are increasingly torn. Just how involved should they be? Should they help a son or daughter finish that geography assignment, or stay aloof and risk having a frustrated, sleep-deprived child? Should they complain to teachers about the heavy workload or be thankful that their kids are being pushed toward higher achievement? Battles over homework have become so intense that some school districts have decided to formally prescribe the amount of homework kids at each grade level should receive. All of which leaves open the questions of just how much and what kind...
...local officials denied their eldest son, Phillip R., the right to purchase the farm at its appraised price after the foreclosure--even though he had the financing to do so. They also claim that Smith bulldozed the grave of Dorathy's father on the property--despite a court-ordered stay pending outcome of the class action. Smith refuses to comment on the allegation...
...long shudder of disillusion in which the women are hookers, the men pimps and the audience voyeurs, gazing raptly at one primal scene after another? You'll hoot at the zany antics of Steam Heat and weep over the sweet sentimentality of Mr. Bojangles, but the picture that will stay in your mind longest is the sinister image of a pencil-thin dancer dressed in black, arms held close to his body, with a bowler hat pulled low over his eyes so that nobody can see who he really...
...Salt Lake Olympic bid committee in 1990 and '91. "You can't believe the crap they were pulling. We were giving out saltwater taffy and cowboy hats; they were giving out computers." She is harsh on Samaranch. "He had to fly in on a private jet. He had to stay in the presidential suite--it had to be the finest room in the city. There was a particular type of NordicTrak he works out on, so we had to get that piece of equipment. We had to have limousines for him--Lincoln Town Cars weren't good enough. That...
...achieve everything we are trying to do [LIVING, April 24, 1989]. With the new year upon us, we should resolve to enjoy life more. Some ideas: let's drive faster, thus spending less time in our cars; use more convenience and frozen foods to save preparation time; get and stay organized in all facets of our lives and...stop procrastinating! JIM ABSHIRE Denver...