Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Matano cites a family history of alcoholism as another warning signal of increased risk for developing problems. While the rate of alcoholism is 7 percent for the general population, the rate is five to seven times higher among adult children of alcoholics, says the report...
...billion- a-year disposable-diaper business. P&G has about 47% and K-C 30% of the market. P&G wants its rival to stop manufacturing the superabsorbent Huggies. In its defense, K-C contends that it discovered the technology from its manufacture of tampons and adult diapers...
...fiction and nonfiction stories, puzzles and contests. Then there is the fast-growing crop of special-interest magazines, including Cobblestone (history), Faces (anthropology), Odyssey (space exploration and astronomy), Cricket (fiction), Merlyn's Pen (student fiction) and television companions like Alf and Sesame Street. A subset includes junior versions of adult magazines such as Penny Power (published by Consumer Reports), National Geographic World and the newest entry, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED FOR KIDS...
...Florida baseball cuts across the generation gap. There are two kinds of attractions here: adult, which means no children allowed, and family, indicating the loud presence of small people. But college students on spring break occasionally turn their beer-dousing noses away from Daytona Beach long enough to take in a game. Senior citizen Jack Keidel, who retired to Orlando some years ago and now works as a volunteer usher at Twins games, speaks for many of his peers when he says that baseball "breaks up the monotony of endless golf." A 14-year-old wearing a T shirt emblazoned...
...talking about the radical bunch of leaders. When the cops came [into University Hall], they all got out, and let the other people get arrested. They were just evil people. And don't think young people can't be evil. They can be as evil as any adult. There was a little bunch of those people who were simply wicked...