Word: adults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...datum line, the absolute minumum standard of living. A third, smaller boy, his elbows poking through his man's-size shirt, runs up to join the other picanins (as my liberal white friend who is driving calls the boys, to distinguish them from the boys who make up the adult male population, I suppose). The first two fight the new boy off, threatening to hit him with an empty bottle over five cents. I am told not to intervene: they are blacks first, not children fighting, and I am an alien white. When we return to the car, there...
...they have no hard evidence to link the drop to the test. The decrease might be explained by other factors like the increasing number of hysterectomies, in which the cervix is usually removed. The true efficacy of the test is also clouded by the fact that though half the adult women in the U.S. have Pap smears annually, relatively few of the tests are on women who run the highest risk of developing cervical cancer. The disease is most prevalent among women in low-income groups, as well as those who begin having sex at an early age and have...
Juvenile courts are another matter. There the real criminals do get off, while "offenders" like runaways, "incorrigibles" and "ungovernables" get locked up or sent to institutions that often do more harm than good. Adult prisons are no better...
However, the insistent ethical perspective of the young often reminds the pragmatist adult of the course his own conscience would have him take. When contemplating courses of action we parents often think, "Will I be able to explain this to my son or daughter?", as well as "Will I be comfortable with myself afterwards?". Realizing their consciences aren't as tempered by the necessities of everyday life, we incorporate their perspective in making our judgements...
...their creator's financial integrity. Even his opponents have conceded this. Robert A. Caro, author of a lengthy and highly critical biography entitled "The Power Broker," makes this abundantly clear. He describes Moses as "personally honest in matters of money," and notes: "For all the years of his adult life, he had been short of money...seventy-one years old. Robert Moses, the Robert Moses whom the press persisted in describing as 'independently wealthy,' was, so far as cash was concerned, all but penniless...