Word: ages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Computer-controlled jets are attractive to the airlines at least partly because of their low operating costs. The gadgetry of the A320 eliminates the need for a third member of the cockpit crew, creating a cost-cutting advantage for airlines struggling for profits in the age of deregulation. Airbus also boasts that the plane is 40% more fuel efficient than older, comparably sized models like the Boeing 727 because of its lighter weight and streamlined profile...
...tough on me," she admits. "I get very lonely when he's out of town, and we never have enough time alone." Despite such gripes, Kaija remains "in love with the man, hook, line and sinker." Says she: "Husbands seem to be a disposable commodity in this day and age, but Eddie's like family to me. Like a brother. And you don't divorce your brother...
...twelve-year-old makes a wish to be big -- and wakes up the next day as Tom Hanks in a delightful comedy-fantasy about youth and age, and the differences between them...
Congress overhauled the retirement program in 1983, after dire predictions that the Golden Age for the post-World War II generation would bring on the Dark Ages for Social Security. Before the reforms, the trust fund had worked more like a chain letter than a pension plan. Each current retiree's benefit check required payroll taxes from four current employees. But so many children were born right after the war and so few after 1964 that the pay-as-you-go system threatened to collapse when the boomers retired. In the first half of the next century there will...
...celebrate every June, crowds of scruffy youths descend before dawn on ancient Stonehenge on Britain's Salisbury Plain. Last week 4,000 hippies, as they are quaintly called in Britain, turned the annual rite into a full-scale riot, partly to protest the barriers erected around the early Bronze Age monument in recent years to protect it from crowds...