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...government paints a much brighter picture. According to the 1992 Household Survey on Drug Abuse, released last month by the Department of Health and Human Services, the nationwide pattern of drug abuse is in decline. The study shows an 11% dip in illicit drug use by Americans 12 years or older, from 12.8 million in 1991 to 11.4 million in 1992. The drop is pronounced in all age groups except those 35 and over, who use drugs at a rate comparable to 1979 levels. Yet the number of hard-core abusers remains unchanged. And a smorgasbord of nouvelle intoxicants...
...woods of rural Dade County; 43 years later, it survived Hurricane Andrew without losing more than a couple of shingles. In addition to the now legendary alligators, there were cows, beagles, macaws, raccoons, goats, geese, ponies, pigs and skunks (not descented), all welcome members of the famously unorthodox Reno household. "Daddy would come out of the bathroom and say, 'Would somebody get this' -- and you can interject pelican, otter, & boa constrictor -- 'out of here so I can take a bath,' " explains Maggy Reno Hurchalla, Janet's sister, a county commissioner in central Florida...
...cleaner. If domestic service were generally provided by business firms (ideally, co-ops of the workers themselves) with all the trappings of a business relationship (monthly bills instead of cash on the kitchen table, etc.), the arrangement would be more dignified for both parties. It would also provide household workers some of the benefits -- such as reliable Social Security enjoyed by those of us who work in the grownup economy...
...Vermont the day before Ruth was named, the Ginsburgs were met by White House lawyers at their apartment for a crash vetting. Martin was able to show records, in meticulous, Manila-folder order, of Social Security payments for everyone who had so much as touched a dishrag in their household...
...that Family Dog is awful. It's a perfectly amiable, perfectly inconsequential cartoon show that seems better suited to Saturday mornings. The concept is appealing: life in a suburban household as seen through the eyes of the ignored and abused family pet. And the pooch itself is amusingly drawn: a woebegone, teardrop-snouted creature, rendered in the spare lines of 1950s UPA animation (Mr. Magoo...