Word: adult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clearest in its use of appealing rhetoric from two popular traditions: communitarian and voluntaristic. The company can comfortably engage itself in Youth Smoking Prevention campaigns and denounce "complete government-imposed smoking bans or severe restriction" all in the same breath, since it claims that smoking is a question of adult free choice...
Your article on the recent study done by this commission warning of the dangers of letting infants sleep in adult beds was off base [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR FAMILY, Oct. 11]. We showed that every year 64 children under the age of two die in adult beds. Your article referred to the deaths as "only 64," but even one death is too many. Since 1989 the CPSC has warned that infants should never be put to sleep in adult beds because of the risk of entrapment or suffocation. This is the first study to quantify the number of fatalities resulting from...
...course, always sells. Pornography websites were among the first to turn a profit in e-commerce. So-called adult material accounts for 69% of the $1.5 billion worth of online content--services that can be downloaded, including music and games--in the U.S. and Western Europe, according to a May 1999 study by research firm Datamonitor. But taking sanitized sex to the masses--and particularly to women--has given purveyors of erotica an entirely new audience. "Taking the smut out of sex is a clever thing to do," says Michael Poyner, retailing expert with London consultants Credo Group...
...their tastes. "You have the romantic comedy, you have action, you have psychological dramas--it's as varied as live-action acting is in the U.S., and you wouldn't call live-action a genre, would you?" Titles range from very kid-friendly stuff ("Pokemon") to the ultra-violent adult material ("Macross Plus"), with various levels in between...
...Despite what little Jenny told you during your last game of "I never," many women (yes, even Harvard women) find that self-pleasure is an integral part of their young adult lives. Obviously, no two women are alike; for some it might be once or twice a month and for others once or twice a night. Whatever the frequency, pleasuring yourself, as one Quincy sophomore put it, "is more than just an orgasm...it's about getting to know your body, experimenting and relieving stress...