Word: 20s
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Quite the contrary, he speaks from somewhere in-between, the gray area that is perhaps hardest to define. It is his unique struggle to reconcile the values of both worlds that render his work a worthy read. Not only are his views of child-rearing surprisingly modern for the 20s, but he also incorporates such stereotypically American ideas as that of personal living-space and the capitalist work ethic alongside more traditional concepts of sin and religion. Though of Christian heritage and clearly inspired by the Bible, Gibran does not constrain his concept of spirituality to one particular doctrine...
...quite shocked. There's this belief that women aren't supposed to be comfortable with, or bold about, their sexuality. I get people standing across from me at my signings, women, in their 20s and 30s, saying they didn't know they were allowed to enjoy sex. And I'm thinking, "What's going on here...
Chief Dull Knife College is small--only 141 full-time students, although a few hundred more attend workshops or study part time. The median age is in the upper 20s; some students have worked to raise money for college, while others needed time to deal with addiction and, in some cases...
...hard by the current downturn, none is nearly as sick as agriculture was throughout the 1920s. And for all the current ills of megabanks like Washington Mutual and Wachovia, the national banking system still enjoys a measure of stability far greater than in the 1930s--or even the '20s. The kinds of "runs" on savings institutions that we watch Jimmy Stewart battle every Christmas season are all but unimaginable, thanks in large measure to the psychological reassurance provided by a landmark New Deal innovation, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), whose authority to guarantee bank deposits has recently been expanded...
...immune to those ailments as the decade of the '20s reached its operatic climax, and it suffered from some others that were peculiarly its own. A stubborn agricultural depression had blighted the American countryside since the conclusion of World War I, crimping the incomes of the 20% of the workforce who were farm laborers and significantly limiting domestic purchasing power. Meanwhile, a notoriously ramshackle, poorly regulated banking system had managed to wobble its dysfunctional way into the modern era. Some 25,000 banks--most of them highly fragile "unitary" institutions with tiny service areas, little or no diversification of clients...