Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Age Doth Not Wither...
...Hemmet was a small retirement town in central southern California. It is white upper-middle class; the average age is 64. Also there is Hemmet Wholesale nursery which employs 150-200 agricultural workers. They voted to be represented by the UFW two years ago, and it has been two years of stalling negotiations. Our job was to bring Hemmet Wholesale to the negotiating table, harass the people connected with Hemmet Wholesale, and build up support in the town. We began with a petition of support on which we got some 500 signatures. We presented the list to the city council...
More than two years after coming out of the deep 1973-75 recession, the nation's economic recovery has reached middle age-and is feeling all the crotchets of that stage of life. Its youthful bounce is now just a memory, and its progress is marked more by caution than boldness. Its future looks unexcitingly predictable at best, a little worrisome at worst: relatively modest gains in production, a very gradual reduction of high unemployment, continuation of a distressing but not immediately dangerous inflation rate...
...age clobbers Youngstown...
...California's community college network, which is tuition-free for in-state residents, catered to a staggering 1,265,000 adults last year-one out of every eight adults in the state-a 50% increase over just five years ago. Nationwide last year, 5.5 million adults over age 25-about 50% of total college enrollment-took courses for credit...