Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Louis Harris poll reported for Children magazine. In truth, 40% of boys and 70% of girls cannot do more than a single pull-up, according to a survey of 19,000 six-to-17-year-olds released last year by the President's council; a third of school-age boys and 50% of girls cannot run a mile in less than ten minutes. Changes in testing make comparisons difficult, but fitness experts generally agree that athletic ability has steadily sagged over the past 20 years. "Kids have no endurance, no strength and very little flexibility," says Allen gloomily...
...paid pregnancy leave and an additional six months of unpaid personal leave if desired. "You can't close your eyes to the fact that the work force has totally changed," says Arthur Strohmer Jr., the company's executive director of human resources. "Increasingly, entrants are women of childbearing age and working mothers. You have to make some adaptations to that pool of talent if only to stay in business." The benefits to the company, Strohmer says, are long term: "We get to keep a lot of people we can't afford to lose...
CHART: ON THE JOB. Percent of women of childbearing age who work...
Description: Rise of number of women of childbearing age as percent of total employed work force...
...most dangerous group is the militant youths known as the "comrades," who have been responsible for much of the killing in the townships. Ranging in age from about 14 to 22, they are typically poor, uneducated and overflowing with rage. In their fierce battle to gain control of communities like Soweto, they have become the chief users of necklaces, the executioners who make the night a time of terror for the black populace. Barbara Harker, training manager in Johannesburg for the National Institute for Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation of Offenders, has studied the comrades. She concluded that the poverty...