Word: adults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...condoms. At last month's Video Software Dealers Association convention, held in 115[degree] Las Vegas heat, Black, 25, stands in a black suit with a black sweater, his face multipierced and satanically goateed. His mother, a plump, pleasant-looking nurse from Rochester, N.Y., bursts into the curtained-off adult section of the convention floor toting her favorite actor, Shemar Moore, who plays Malcolm on The Young and the Restless. "I said to him, 'I'm Rob Black's mother. Do you know who he is?'" she squeals to her son. "And he said, 'Yeah.' I said, 'You want...
...turning point in moral development. For more than a century, English common law has held that children under seven cannot commit crimes (but that those over seven can). "There used to be an old expression, 'Give me a child till he's seven, and I'll give you the adult,'" recalls Brian McSweeney, a vice chancellor of the Archdiocese of New York. There's more than a grain of truth in that maxim...
...Portland, Ore., lawyer and a leading expert on young murderers, says, "Kids are naturally egocentric. Kids can be told they will go to hell, but they don't really think they'll go to hell. When kids lie about stealing a cookie, they don't feel bad like an adult...
...local ecology. They become known as tough or nice or wacky or wicked, and personality starts to harden. Granted, parents can shape behavior within the home. But in the wider world, Harris argues, the child is a different person, and there lie the roots of the budding adult...
Never before have stocks been so important a form of wealth for so many Americans, whether they hold shares directly or through mutual funds and 401(k) accounts. Forty-three percent of adult Americans hold stocks, the broadest ownership ever. And Chris Varvares, president of the forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers, traces more than one-third of the growth of consumer spending last year directly to the wealth effect. Economists calculate that investors tend to spend about 4 [cents] of every dollar they gain in stock-market wealth...