Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moon. "They kept saying how marvelous the Tatum O'Neal character was. So I said, 'Listen, guys, I was the same type of child, only I grew up with German troops and hunger and death.' They told me to write it all down." The result: My Adult Childhood, a mosaic of young life under Nazi occupation that has brought such a flood of letters it may end up as-what else?-a movie...
Offenders may be tried in adult courts if they are over 16 and the crime is serious. Otherwise they are handled by the Commissions on Juvenile Affairs, which emphasize rehabilitation by counseling rather than imprisonment (though in some cases parents may be fined for their children's transgressions). There are exceptions, though. Last year two technical school students were sent to a labor camp for seven years after they stabbed to death three of the Moscow Zoo's kangaroos...
EASY RIDERS--Entertainment for Adult Bikers, monthly, $1.75, published by Paisana Publications...
...will make every responsible effort to reduce adult unemployment to 3% within four years...
Like some vast jury gradually and reluctantly arriving at a verdict, politicians, educators and especially millions of parents have come to believe that the U.S. public schools are in parlous trouble. Violence keeps making headlines. Test scores keep dropping. Debate rages over whether or not one-fifth or more adult Americans are functionally illiterate. High school graduates go so far as to sue their school systems because they got respectable grades and a diploma but cannot fill in job application forms correctly. Experts confirm that students today get at least 25% more As and Bs than they did 15 years...