Will a harried parent dump $300 on a Switch when the Wii U and the Xbox and the PS4 and the iPad and the computer and literally everything else in the house is competing for the attention that once belonged solely to the NES? Nintendo has the most to lose as an entire generation moves away from dedicated gaming hardware and lands on general-purpose devices.
The Grand Prix, effectively the award for the Palme runner-up, was shared by "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia," a 157-minute metaphysical road movie from the Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and "The Kid With a Bike," a story about a child dumped by a parent, from the Belgian filmmaking brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
That's right: the Commodore 64 is 30 years old this week, appearing at CES in 1982 and ending up in third-grade classrooms and kids' rooms for years after until, unceremoniously, millions of school custodians and parents dumped them in the trash as the PC took over desktops all over the world.
Did he dump you because he's seeing someone else? Did someone like a parent place pressure on him to leave you?
If you are a parent of a child in any borough in this city, you should be against this Bloomberg/de Blasio dump.
In 1997, Barclays' investment banking unit was so marginal that its centuries-old parent, Barclays, dumped most of its businesses, including equities and mergers and acquisitions.
If every uncomfortable encounter a kid has with another kid is labeled "bullying" it not only diminishes the episodes of true bullying that kids have experienced, it also allows parents to dump the whole situation on the school to handle.
They will be nice about it, but at the first sign of a good party or an a capella practice, parents will be dumped and, when we really ask ourselves we know, this is entirely as it should be.
But when faced with such a variety of scoopers, a pet parent can get down in the dumps when deciding which one is right for them.
A teenage girl and her boyfriend have admitted killing the girl's parents and dumping their bodies into the East River, a prosecutor said yesterday at the couple's arraignment on murder charges.
