Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles businessman had expected to pay about $1,500 to buy round-trip tickets to Detroit for his wife and two children. Then he spotted a newspaper ad for Delta's new Los Angeles-to-Toledo service that offers $49 one-way tickets for family members, when one adult pays full fare. By going to Toledo, 60 miles from Detroit, and renting a car to finish the trip, the family saved about...
...Sharp's simple, repetitive prose telling of an archetypal middle-class family with its dog, Spot, and cat, Puff, came under fire from feminists in the early 1970s for stereotyping Jane as subordinate to Dick. "It never bothered the children," replied Sharp. "That's all an adult's viewpoint...
...moderate Republicans and the pleasure of ranking committee Democrat Edward Kennedy, the Administration agreed at the meeting to make significant concessions. The largest federal education program, funds for school districts that serve disadvantaged children, was kept as a categorical grant. So were programs for education of handicapped, adult and bilingual students. Of the $13 billion available for education, only $585 million was put into a block grant. The committee also refused to go along with Reagan's plan to eliminate legal aid for the poor, though funding was cut from $321 million to $100 million. Many minor health programs...
...batch of Saturday matinee-type features. It rarely ascends into exhilaration or slumps into camp. The direction of some actors is pedestrian, if not oafish. But as a lavish vehicle for the talents of Effects Wizard Ray Harryhausen, Clash offers delights to the eye and spirit of every moviegoing adult who has wanted to revisit the dreams of his youth...
...nudie show can go on in Mount Ephraim, N.J., a small (pop. 4,863) bedroom community near Camden and Philadelphia. At the Six-Thirteen Corp. "adult bookstore," customers used to be able to pop a token worth 25? into a coin-operated machine, causing a shade to roll up revealing a nude dancer doing her bumps and grinds in a glass booth. But Mount Ephraim had a zoning ordinance that in effect banned all live entertainment, while allowing such commercial activities as restaurants, retail stores and beauty salons. In 1976 the bookstore and its operators, James Schad and Toni Taylor...