Word: ages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Look at what happened to Lewis. He won four gold medals in 1984, but at the age of 27, Lewis lost in the 200 meters in Seoul to a 22-year-old runner by the name of Joe Deloach. There is always someone to knock...
That dream has been steadily receding for many Americans, primarily young people. Since 1979, periods of high interest rates and fast-rising prices in many parts of the U.S. have caused the rate of home ownership in the 25-29 age group to drop from 44% to 36%. For those in their 30s, the rate fell from 61% to 53%. The increase in home prices has far outpaced the ability of young people to save the necessary down payment. A prime reason is the price of rents, which have risen even faster than home prices in many cities. Now interest...
...Ragtime (1975), this novel mingles fictional characters with historical ones: Schultz, Walter Winchell, Thomas E. Dewey. The setting combines Depression seediness and underworld glamour in a manner reminiscent of Loon Lake (1980). And this is not the first time Doctorow has written about a boy's coming of age in the Bronx; he did so in World's Fair (1985), even giving its made-up hero his own first name, Edgar. But the author is not simply repeating himself this time out. He is mixing elements from his other novels in a manner that proves combustible and incandescent...
...nation's high schools have long been a favorite hunting ground for the military. Caught between adolescence and adulthood, at an age when possibilities seem boundless but money often is not, graduating seniors are ideal candidates for recruitment into the armed services. With federally sponsored job-training and financial-aid programs virtually dismembered by the Reagan Administration, the military has sought to fill the void by stressing its willingness to outfit men and women for high-tech careers and provide aid for higher education. Says Captain George Karpinski, an Army recruiter in the Atlanta area: "Seventeen- and 18-year-olds...
...view right into the maw of the active volcano Kilauea. This jaunt is not for the faint of heart or weak of knee. When the tree line below suddenly drops away, leaving the swaying copter to swoop deep into an amphitheater of waterfalls, even the rush of peaceable New Age music injected through the passenger headphones may fail to tranquilize a white-knuckle flyer...