Meanwhile, Joy toils, and the camera focuses in on her hands as she carries her children, fixes her mother's plumbing, and wrings out a sopping mop, getting shards of broken glass in her palms in the process (a visual shattering of the possibility that Joy will be offered a pair of glass slippers, whether from a love interest or a venture capitalist).
One neighbor said Mr. Marcial could often be seen on the street during the summer, helping children fix their bicycles.
P.T.A. parents like Mrs. Crowell, chairwoman of the school's picture committee, moved through the lines of waiting children, fixing hair with disposable combs and adjusting clothing.
Three decades later, her role as Phoebe, the patrician matriarch of the Tyler family on ABC's "All My Children," fixed her most indelibly in the American consciousness.
My children fixed a dinner for me that put me back on eating meat again.
Parents incur three categories of expenses in the care of their children: fixed, variable, and controlled.
We have asked our elected officials to help bring better jobs to our neighborhoods, build stronger schools for our children, fix our roads and infrastructure and make quality health care an affordable reality.
He has taken phone calls from those who want him to find new roommates for their children, fix the heating in dorm rooms and help their offspring find better paying jobs long after graduation.
Although loose sports equipment was made available to the control school children, fixed playground equipment provides no opportunity to move objects around and is an area, along with weather influences, warranting further examination.
It's simple (but not easy), you fix the children, you fix the schools, you fix the problem of public education.
To account for selection bias, we used within-child fixed effects to model the variability in each child's BITSEA scores over two measurement occasions (ages 12 and 24 months).
