Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this format could lead to the "when I was little" syndrome--explaining everything in terms of childhood experience. And Baker addresses this potential problem head-on. He writes that he turns "something that I was taking seriously as an adult into something soupier, less precise, more falsely exotic than it really...
Unfortunately, the decline in ivory trade in Japan and elsewhere may not reflect a drop in demand so much as the decimation of adult elephants. As mature elephants are killed, it becomes harder to satisfy the world's appetite for ivory. Stephen Cobb, who leads an ivory study for the AECCG, says the reduction in trade "is a clear sign of the collapse of exploitable elephant populations...
...doubling of the funds for adult education services providing training in reading, writing and mathematics...
...Radcliffe's seventh annual Rama Mehta Lecture, University of Cape Town researcher and political activist Mamphela Aletta Ramphele said space constraints have created a system that gives adult male Bantus unequal control over other Blacks living in work hostels...
From a telephone poll of 1,012 adult Americans taken for TIME on Jan. 9-10 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus...