Word: bracketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...phrased its poll questions somewhat differently, found that 75% of those interviewed in homes with computers used them for both video-game playing and calculations. In the 18-to-29 age category, 25% expressed interest in using a micro. That percentage dropped to 16% in the 30-to-44 bracket; to 9% with the 45-to-59 crowd; and to a minuscule 3% among the over-60 generation. Similarly, disapproval of personal computers rose with age: 28% in the 18-to-29 group, and all the way up to 87% for those 60 and older...
...assurance, acted with panache and technically quite smooth and knowing (despite a murky blowup from 16 mm to 35 mm), is, of all things, a student film. It was conceived, created and hustled into the world's film markets by a cooperative of Oxonians in the same age bracket, 20 to 27, as the students they have conspired to place on the screen. The chief difference between creators and creations is that the former apparently have a more vaulting sense of what young people can accomplish if they devote their nerve, energy and talents to doing something of more...
Some blame inflation, which has eroded real living standards and cramped the traditional assumption that hard work would pay off in an improving future. Some blame the inflationary phenomenon known as "bracket creep," by which almost every increase in salary, even if it merely keeps one even with the rise in the cost of living, puts the recipient in a higher tax bracket and thus brings a relatively greater increase in taxes owed. These are economic reasons, and tax evasion obviously has major economic roots fed not only by inflation but by recession. Yet tax evasion is also a moral...
...decisive match for the team standings came in the second doubles bracket. In the final. Rob Loud and Warren Grossman rallied to top Texas's Levine and Tom Fontana...
...singles bracket, Crimson senior Harvard Sands knocked off two nationally tanked players. In the semifinal, he survived seven match points for a 6-7, 7-6, 6-2 victory over Arizona's Paul Chamberlain. "It's one of those things that happens so rarely." Sands said of his comeback. "I really started playing well, going for some lines, making some of the best lobs of my life...