Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Akihito was born on Dec. 23, 1933, the long-awaited first son of Hirohito and Empress Nagako, who had already produced four girls. In time-honored imperial fashion, the prince was separated from his parents at about the age of three and raised by nurses, tutors and chamberlains. Yet in a departure from custom, at six Akihito was sent to school with commoners in order to broaden him. When the Allies began closing in on Japan during World War II, he and some of his classmates were evacuated to provincial cities...
Until recently, it was widely believed that older drivers were the safest because they are involved in the fewest accidents overall of any age group. But those statistics do not weigh the fact that senior citizens tend to drive fewer miles than their younger counterparts. A 1988 study by the Transportation Research Board and the National Research Council discovered that elderly drivers rank second only to 16-to-24-year-olds in the number of accidents per mile driven. Similarly, the Insurance Information Institute reports that drivers 75 and over are more accident-prone than all but those under...
Before the advent of age-discrimination laws, 14 states passed legislation requiring older drivers to take tests to get their licenses renewed. In Pennsylvania, where the percentage of fatal accidents involving the elderly increased from 7% to 10% between 1985 and 1987, the Department of Transportation randomly selects as many as 1,500 senior citizens due for license renewal and calls them in for medical, vision, written and possible driving tests. As a result, 20% of the licenses are revoked, voluntarily surrendered or subjected to such restrictions as limiting the driver to daytime hours...
...owners of one popular bar outside campus said that a change in the school's policy will not affect their stance toward the legal drinking age...
...said that because Ted's checks IDs strictly at the door, the bar is not a source of alcohol for under-age students...