Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From a pool of 150 potential jurors, the lawyers took nine hours to pick Yudkoff plus another assistant principal, an adult-education director, a department-store manager, a government worker, a lawyer, a freelance writer, a ticket agent, two secretaries, a student and an electrician. After hearing 75 witnesses over the course of two weeks, the jurors filed out of court at 5:30 p.m. one day and took their seats around an old wooden table. For a long moment they just looked at one another. Then everybody started talking at once...
...voting lists do not provide a completely accurate cross section of a community. Overall, the registered voters represent only 67% of the adult population, and even after the reforms of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, they are still disproportionately the white, the middle class and the middleaged. In North Carolina's Cumberland County, a detailed study four years ago showed that the jury list based on both voters and taxpayers was only...
...from the International Psychoanalytical Association for unorthodox practices (his sessions with patients were sometimes as brief as five or even three minutes); of an abdominal tumor; in Paris. Lacan, who last year dissolved the Freudian School on the ground that it had fallen into "deviations and compromises," maintained that adult psychic disorders often stemmed from the learning of language-and the repression of nonverbal ideas and urges-during childhood...
Unlike the toy companies, Tinkerbell. which sells only cosmetics, toiletries and other grooming aids, considers it inappropriate to promote their wares directly to children. "We would prefer that the parents make the decisions on what to buy," says Greenfield. The commercials featuring Danielle will appear only on adult soap operas and game shows and not on cartoon programs...
Ammonia, a six-man electric jazz group that plays Sunday nights in the cramped front yard of the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, lugs around more equipment than many bar bands, but its members claim they have no aspirations other than "to play outside in the warm weather and entertain the people." Several contributors to the smooth Ammonia sound are professional musicians, and one notes that the group has potential "because we've already fought it out and slugged each other around, so we know how to survive." For now though, they're willing to run their cords all over...