Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...20s a student's chances of being placed on the Dean's List were less than one-half of what they are now and the chances of making Group I were less than one-fifth of what they are today...
...Front's links to its Nazi predecessor are being clearly drawn through Britain's current political turbulence. The economic climate fostering the rise of contemporary fascism is similar to the worsening economy of Germany in the late '20s. The racist and nationalist propaganda of the Front recall all too readily Hitler's anti-semitism, his genocide of the 'inferior' Slavic population, and his plans for a Greater Germany. The Front's plans for the state control of capitalist industry are cruelly reminiscent of the German state machine which provided concentration camps of cheap labor to a regulated German industry...
...imports. West Germany's trade surplus with the rest of the world reached $17.5 billion last year, and Bonn has a $36 billion reserve of gold and foreign currencies. Most important for the nervous West Germans, who are still traumatized by the ravaging inflation of the '20s, the cost of living rose only 4% last year (compared with 10% in France...
...suspect that the whole professional sports business artificially prolongs athletes' careers, keeps them slogging along for huge sums of money long after their powers have faded. Occasionally that happens. But men and women in most sports do not even reach athletic maturity until they are well into their 20s, or even later. It was not until she had hit 31 that Virginia Wade won Wimbledon last year...
...PLOT REVOLVES around Donny Dubrow, the proprietor of the resale ship, seemingly a one-time street punk now in his late 20s, eking out a marginal existence. Donny spends the opening minutes of the play expounding his philosophy of life and business to Bobby, a nervous, denim-clad teenager who serves as Donny's sometime-assistant and partner in petty crime. Donny's theory is somewhat simplistic, summarized in the phrase "Action talks and bullshit walks." The point of this diatribe seems to be that everyone must look out for themselves. Stuart Burney's Donny seems painfully aware of this...