Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adult and family clinics, scattered across the city and servicing health needs ranging from gynecology to nutrition, similar close relationships develop between doctors and patients. Patients have been known to follow a doctor or nurse practitioner across Cambridge when he or she transfers to another clinic or practice "You really get to know people," says Helen Cappello, a nurse practitioner, adding that she has "patients that I wouldn't hesitate calling it they missed an appointment...
...looked back harshly on the "shabby genteel" class inhabited by his parents and their friends: "Practically the whole family income goes in keeping up appearances." Unlike most who rebel from the worlds of their childhood, Eric became hypercritical of himself as well; his behavior during his early years, his adult memories of this period, both convey the peculiar sense that he considered himself not good enough for a style of life he disliked. The Blairs kept up appearances by enrolling their son, at reduced tuition, in St. Cyprian's, an institution that rigorously prepared boys for the great public...
...ironic problem for the Americans is that many of the Marxist-inspired social projects were welcomed by Grenadians, who now expect the U.S. to continue them with U.S. dollars. They include medical clinics, adult-education courses, scholarships for study abroad, housing assistance, an uncompleted new sports stadium and, of course, the controversial 10,000-ft. airstrip, which had been budgeted as a $71 million project. It is three-fourths completed...
...uncompromising: there is no time limit for earning a degree and, for needier students, there is financial help; but the "Adas" (their campus nickname) must attend the same classes as regular four-year students, which means no snap courses and no credits for "life experience," a popular trend in adult education...
Smith provides an outstanding example of the surge in adult education in America, as the population of 18-year-olds continues to decline. One-third of the 12.4 million U.S. students now enrolled in degree programs are over 25, and the majority of these are women: 2,425,000 in 1981, up from 1 million in 1972. Many of these students are enrolled in state universities or community colleges, but even highly competitive Ivy League schools have bachelor's degree programs for older students. Yale has begun admitting adults on a part-time basis, and Brown...