Word: adults
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...suit to pull on his umbilical cord? on that one I was with the girl, who says, "Honestly, I haven?t the foggiest." The prankster and his two cohorts shrugs off her bafflement by explaining, "Some days people laugh, some days they don?t. Today?s skit was adult-oriented...
...debate over MySpace's culpability has been raging on local talk radio and blogs this week, with many Austin residents saying it is up to parents to monitor their children's Internet activities. Meanwhile, the company has announced new security policies that will kick in next week, limiting adult access to personal information for 14- and 15-year-olds; MySpace users who are 18 or over could no longer request to be on a 14- or 15-year-old's friends' list unless they already know either the youth's e-mail address or full name. But experts question whether...
...classmates who marry each other's sisters in order to remain in a kind of Eton club, of their difficulties in relating to exotic creatures like women and the less privileged, and quotes writer John Le Carré, who taught at the school in the 1950s: "The boys were adult, funny, a little removed from life, even as they evolved effortlessly into the shrewdest operators. They communicated with each other in code. Most of all, I felt, they really knew how to be with each other, and that was the real Eton thing." Some boys now attending are the seventh...
...mobility in the country has stalled. The absolute number of white-collar jobs is rising, but research shows that the chance of getting from the bottom 10% of society to the top 10% is dropping. A middle-class child is 15 times more likely to become a middle-class adult than a working-class child is to make it into the middle class, "and private schools are undoubtedly part of that story," says Geoff Mulgan, head of the Young Foundation and previously head of Blair's Policy Unit. "They've become an even more powerful part of élite formation...
...service workers, and living-wage advocates say the results are telling. In Cincinnati neighborhoods like Over-the-Rhine and the West End, where Jones lives, poor wages coupled with high rates of drug use, street violence and truancy have created a cycle of interdependent problems. More than half the adult black males in the two neighborhoods are without full-time work. In the West End alone, 76.5% of the children under 5 are living in poverty, and per capita income is $9,759 a year...