Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SOME months back I got a message in a fortune cookie that said, "True love can be found if you look for it." It was an odd message to receive; the conventions of our age tell us that love comes only to the young or to the lucky. The concept of true love based on committment or permanency is one from which many people in the 1980s seem to shy away...
Despite the age difference of about 10 minutes, brothers Ian and Dana Smith are straight on just who is the oldest brother...
Despite being only minutes apart in age, Dana and Ian both know who is the oldest...
...contribution to poverty research by creating a "Male Marriageable Pool Index" (MMPI). Inspired by discussions with inner-city women in Chicago, who said there simply were not that many men who could support a family, the MMPI measures the number of employed men per 100 women of the same age and race...
Among Blacks, the MMPI has fallen severely in the last decades; it has remained steady or increased for white women since 1954. In the poor community of Oakland in Chicago, the MMPI for Blacks over 16 years of age was 70 in 1950; in 1980, there were only 19 employed Black men per 100 black women. This drastic decline in the MMPI is, Wilson argues, one of the main causes of the tendency to delay marriage and the low rate of marriage among Black women--which both contribute to the number of female-headed households and out-of-wedlock births...