Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Instamatic cartridge cameras of almost 20 years ago that caused a huge jump in the number of pictures taken by the average snap-shooter. Convinced that it has something to shout about, the company will push a $100 million ad blitz aimed at hitting 95% of the U.S. adult population at least 18 times by next Christmas...
...answer is none of the above. The correct response: Shannon Tweed, the November 1981 Playboy centerfold, inviting viewers to join her in Hugh Hefner's new electronic rabbit warren. In partnership with Escapade, a cable programmer that bills itself as an "adult entertainment service," Playboy last month launched the first in a series of one-hour video magazines into 200,000 homes. "The cable market is similar to the opportunities the magazine had in the 1950s," says Hefner. "This is where home entertainment is going. It's a core interest...
Your story on alternatives to institutionalization for the aged begins and ends with quotes from two elderly people in San Francisco, who poignantly advocate adult day care centers [Jan. 18]. Unfortunately, there is no mention that both of these individuals are participants in the Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center program, one of the first day care facilities in the U.S. based in a community hospital...
...million the year before. And the number of people working part time, because their hours were cut below 35 a week or because they were unable to find full-time work, grew to a record 5.4 million, up 360,000 in a single month. The unemployment rate for adult men jumped to 8%, a post-World War II high, from November's 7.2%. Economists consider this figure quite significant, since it indicates a growing number of layoffs among the traditional family breadwinners. The unemployment rate for adult women was lower than for men (7.5%), but the rate of joblessness...
...life." Sylvia Townsend Warner never outgrew that childhood. All her long life she retained the level innocent stare that sees so much more than just innocence. This strangely sophisticated child taught herself how to describe the ordinary with precision and wonder and a certain elegance, until even an adult could see that absolutely nothing, in the end, is ordinary...