Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...child is an adult when he takes out a loan, marries, registers for the Selective Service, commits a crime or votes [NATION, July 2]. But when it comes to drinking, that responsible adult suddenly becomes a child again. Teen lives can be saved by abolishing mandatory registration with the Selective Service and letting young people enlist at their will, or by having mandatory registration at 21. Anthony W. Dallmier Olney...
Each segment seems alike at development's earliest stage and contains the genetic information to make any one of the adult parts: said Allen Laughon of the University of Colorado, where much of the research took place...
...that from walking into a candy shop and being taken by the multitude of sweets. The immediate impulse is to scurry out and tell your friends all about it. One gets much the same feeling from reading Lords Ladies and Gentlemen, the memoirs of Clifton Daniel. Daniel acts the adult equivalent of the kid in the candy shop as a name dropper of the first order...
...more stringent law enforcement. Furthermore, argue critics of the pro-21 measure, foreclosing the privileges of the more than 99% of teen-agers who never get involved in alcohol-related accidents is unfair. Says Gene Adams, director of legislative affairs for Florida Governor Robert Graham: "You are a legal adult at 18 in Florida for all other purposes. You can marry, incur debts, sign contracts, vote. You should have the right to drink, especially in the home you bought...
...shared a bedroom in her grandmother's house, and each day Mother Erma would get up at 5 a.m., fix breakfast for her daughter, see that she was dressed for school, and then leave in time to work the 7 a.m. shift at the Leland Electric factory. An adult observer would have seen a spunky young widow doing her best...