Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...society has, for the most part, recognized the adult citizen's right to produce, disseminate, and read/view obscene materials. That an archaic statute remains on the books in Cambridge is perhaps unfortunate, but hardly a significant threat to human freedom. If one really wants acess to pronography, 25 cents will take you to the combat zone and all the filth you could possibly want. This, it seems to me, is the real intent of the First Amendment: a guarantee that no perspective will be silenced...
Voluntary community participation has been the key to success. In Atlanta, schoolchildren collected a veritable mountain of discarded aluminum cans, worth about 23? per lb. at recycling centers, while youngsters and adult volunteers joined in planting trees and shrubs to turn empty lots into picturesque pocket parks. In Rome, volunteers cleaned up roadside ditches and trash-filled yards-and transformed a riverfront hangout for drunks and derelicts into a park that now attracts joggers and cyclists. Macon undertook a similar program, spending several million dollars to upgrade its sanitation department and establish a recycling center...
...California Department of Justice estimated that "adult businesses" took in over $4 billion (approximately one-third of the amount Americans spent on fast food...
...nation's unemployed to 7.3 million. It was the largest rise in overall unemployment since January 1975 and the biggest climb in the jobless rate among males since 1949. Their unemployment rate leaped a full 1% during the month, to 5.9% of the labor force. The highest adult unemployment rate of all, 11.4%, was registered by nonwhite females...
...induced the only anxiety attacks that a citizen of the Age of Anxiety could actually anticipate with pleasure. This image the rotund, British-born director shaped and nurtured almost as fussily as he did his films. In interviews he invariably doled out the same handful of childhood anecdotes and adult insights into himself, all reinforcing the notion of a person trying gamely to joke away a set of obsessions so common that anyone could identify with them?fear of heights, of closed spaces, of open spaces and, above all, of false accusation and/or arrest. Television, when he began appearing...