Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...folketrygden (people's security) law grants everyone disability, old-age and survivors' benefits, rehabilitation assistance and unemployment payments. Other measures provide free hospitalization, surgery and medicines. Youngsters through the ninth grade receive dental care at their schools at no cost. Every worker is guaranteed at least four weeks of paid vacation...
...ruling troika, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, 73, the wily pragmatist who had been a leading victim of the Cultural Revolution, might get Hua's top job. But Teng was said to have announced that he did not want it. partly because of his age...
These young Britons are not members of a hippie commune, but volunteers for an experiment in Iron Age living, sponsored and filmed by the BBC and now on English television as a twelve-part series. Isolated deep in the Wiltshire woods, they have spent nearly a year trying to re-create the lives of their Celtic ancestors of 2,200 years...
...Producer John Percival, an archaeology buff, conceived the project after a visit to a re constructed Iron Age settlement in Lejre, Denmark. From 1,000 volunteers, Percival selected six couples and trained them in Celtic crafts and culture. One couple, with the commune's only children, three boys, braved it for much of the year but quit the experiment several months ago. The others have stayed on, raising crops and livestock, making pottery, cooking Iron Age food and spinning and weaving wool sheared from their own sheep...
...first aid, packing the snow on unskied runs so they could be opened, and performing a painstaking "sweep" at day's end to make sure no one was hurt or lost on the mountain--he knew he wanted to join, too. He was 13 at the time; the minimum age for junior patrolmen...