Word: ages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that prolonged work in front of a computer screen can impair vision and cause headaches. Some critics say the work may even trigger miscarriages. The unions' campaign to win mandatory VDT safeguards shows every sign of becoming one of organized labor's more determined efforts of the post-industrial age. Some 19 million people, most of them women, currently work at VDTs in the U.S., a number that will more than double by the mid-1990s...
...what is now a two-barge industry, Spinks will also have something to say about lineage. The fight is in Atlantic City instead of Las Vegas, which might be called the aging champion of fight towns if the challenger were not so decrepit. Atlantic City forces its smiles through neon casinos that, like gold crowns, only emphasize the surrounding decay. Similarly, Tyson is the younger party involved, but it hardly seems so. The boardwalk age guessers would be lucky to pick his century...
...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...
P.O.V. (PBS, debuting July 5, 9 p.m. on most stations). A ten-week series of documentaries, each reflecting its maker's individual point of view, premieres with a pair of short works: Acting Our Age, a profile of six elderly women, and American Tongues, a look at regional dialects...
...Lefebvre's Priestly Society of St. Pius X, the French Bernard Tissier de Mallerais and the Swiss Bernard Fellay; Richard Williamson, the head of Lefebvre's U.S. branch and a convert from Anglicanism; and Argentina's Alfonso de Galarreta. Both Fellay and Galarreta are also under the canonical age requirement of 35 for bishops...