Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main cause of the shortage is the baby bust. The low birthrates of the late 1960s and early 1970s mean that there are fewer teenagers and college-age students available today to take on the tedious service-industry tasks of chopping vegetables for salad bars, flipping hamburgers or feeding insurance claims into a computer. Twelve years ago, when Bill and Sydna Zeliff bought their Christmas Farm Inn in Jackson, N.H., they could choose among six candidates for each opening. Now, says Sydna, "we hire almost anyone...
Monette, a poet and novelist, gushes awkwardly about this brief golden age: "Roger and I were busy getting ready for a four-day trip to Big Sur, something we'd done almost yearly since moving to California in 1977. We were putting the blizzard of daily life on hold, looking forward to a dose of raw sublime that coincided with our anniversary." Monette comes across as a trendy Southern California transplant. There is lots of eating out in fashionable restaurants, foreign travel and a Jaguar whose transmission frequently does not work. While conscientiously caring for the dying Roger, Monette works...
...finds the atmosphere radioactive with fear; sperm reminds him of plutonium. In this subdued climate, Holleran finds new enjoyment with his surviving gay companions. He meets many over freshly dug graves and notes the difference in his friends, "as if someone went from adolescence to late middle age without the intervening gradations...
...music, then the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival is right up your alley. Featuring political satirist Tom Paxton, the a cappella group the Bobs, and blues singers Taj Mahal and Odetta, the festival takes place from noon to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $20 per day, and children age 8 to 14 get in for $8. Call 203-364-0366 for details...
...State Department official who briefedreporters on condition of anonymity said it wasnot yet clear whether a flat amount will be paidfor each victim or whether the age, number ofdependents and earnings of the victims will betaken into account in assessing compensation...