Word: glaciality
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Careers have been proving more attractive to women than early marriage. More than half of all women now work, and the median age of a woman at her first marriage has increased by two years in the past decade, a huge jump compared with the typically glacial pace of demographic change. Last week, however, the Census Bureau announced a reversal in that trend. New findings show that the median age of first-time brides registered its first drop in 20 years, falling to 23.1 years from a record...
...rich and near rich have more money to toss around, so the values of the age appear callously self-directed. Yet the plight of the poor is a constant subject of concern and speculation, arising regularly in the platforms of both political parties and in public debate. Below the glacial surface of inactivity, real hearts stir on this issue, but they move nothing. This secret of the age has a secret of its own: we embrace all groups but the poor...
...this light, Ronald Reagan must be suffering terribly under the burden of his newfound image as "the next Richard Nixon." Apart from the fact that Reagan prefers more sympathetic roles, Watergate had the sort of genremaking freshness and glacial-paced unravelling of mystery, intrigue and sliminess that ensured it a unique place in the archives of presidential misadventure...
...maybe find something to eat," says Marine Biologist Tamra Faris of the National Marine Fisheries Service. On her last flight over the lake in mid-July, Faris counted seven harbor porpoises and three Dall's porpoises; last week the porpoises could be seen cruising back and forth along the glacial dam, searching in vain for a passage back...
...banking agreement with Switzerland that facilitates the monitoring of suspicious accounts, and negotiated an extradition treaty for use against drug traffickers in Colombia. Pakistan's opium crop, although large, has been reduced from 600 tons a year in 1981. The reduction may not seem big, but in the glacial world of foreign policy, things tend to move, like it or not, by small steps...