But unless you want to be made to feel like you're top of the Bad Parent Class, trips out are the order of the day.

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Announced in October 2012, 3net Studios - based at both Sony Pictures headquarters in Los Angeles, CA and Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, MD - employs a team of creative personnel, utilizing the world-class technology and production expertise of the parent company's joint venture partners to produce the highest quality native 3D and 4K content available.

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Meanwhile, the class action lawsuit is going forward against Ameriquest's parent company, ACC Capital Holdings.

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The typical two-parent family worked 26 percent more hours in 2010 than in 1975 but the middle class still feels incredibly squeezed.

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The welfare state's expansion into every nook and cranny of too many people's lives has been less about saving people from deprivation and expresses more a condescending middle-class view of people as helpless and hapless unless the state helps them to parent correctly, improve their lifestyles, cut down on smoking or drinking, etc.

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Our plebe year, our parent-teacher week, we ended up taking, for the first time ever, the entire plebe class to New York City for a field trip on 20 buses with no chaperones.

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