Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense of irony trailed the murder charge lodged against Manpower Minister Edgar Tekere last week in Salisbury: it was the first act of personal violence ever attributed to the former guerrilla revolutionary, even during seven bloody years of civil war. The tough, radical Tekere, 43, had spent his entire adult life-including 15 years in prison or exile-in the struggle to bring black majority rule to his native Zimbabwe, but his role was never that of a fighter in the field. Rather, he was an exclusively political operator who specialized in recruiting, motivating and directing from a desk...
...find in these cynical days. This realism also lends credibility to the fantastic tale unfolding aboard the mighty ship. In fact, at a time when movies are increasingly preoccupied with the inexplicable and supernatural, The Final Countdown is one of the few films in this juvenile vein that are adult, intelligent and entertaining. -By Richard Schickel
Misconceptions abound about the nature and number of the American unemployed. Rates of joblessness vary widely. While 6% of white adult males are currently without work, 12.7% of adult black men are looking for jobs. Some 15.6% of white teen-agers are in the ranks of the jobless, but a stunning 36.6% of black teen-agers can find no work. While thousands of workers go several years without finding regular full employment, the average length of joblessness is still only twelve weeks...
...Labor Department calculates the unemployment rate much the way Gallup takes a public opinion poll. Government officials each month telephone or visit 65,000 randomly selected households to determine whether any teen-ager or adult living there is jobless and has looked for work at least once in the previous four weeks. If a person fits both criteria, he or she is officially unemployed...
...faculty, includes courses in science, the humanities and the social sciences, as well as mandatory classes in writing and research projects. The program can be completed in four years, but most students take five. That is still much less than the ten to twelve years often required for standard adult-education programs...