Word: ages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...society more favorably disposed to women would involve the promotion of policies which would address the unique pressures which women face in our day and age--namely, comprehensive public-sector and corporate childcare programs, extended maternity leaves, just palimony rulings and enforcement, affordable housing, minimum wages in accordance with the costs of living and greater aid to struggling parents with dependent children. In short, a society in which economic survival, work, school, career, life expectations and motherhood are not mutually exclusive, as they often are now for single, young and poor women...
...interesting to consider: in an age in which we stress mass transit as the best alternative to environmentally destructive car exhaust, there are very few safeguards against widespread transportation paralysis...
Certainly not Hollywood, which was beginning the greatest year of its Golden Age. In fact, it was to be the most memorable twelve months in the history of the American cinema. There was Gone With the Wind, of course, whose production attracted more intense public curiosity than any other film ever made. When Vivien Leigh -- beautiful, talented, but indisputably English -- was cast in the role of the Old South's own Scarlett O'Hara, thousands of Americans reacted with patriotic fury, as if the Redcoats had burned Washington again. "Why not cast Chiang Kai-shek and change the part...
Five minutes before the first game in which he was supposed to play net at the tender age of five, freshman Chuckie Hughes turned to his parents and announced that he needed to be excused. His father, who was coaching the team, was reluctant to let him go. But at Hughes' insistence, his mother escorted him to the restroom. By the time she had helped him get all his equipment off and back on again, the game was over...
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