Word: rated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assume that East Germans are as disenchanted with their political system as are many of their bloc neighbors. GDR citizens aren't clamoring to trade their government subsidies, guaranteed health care and the highest standard of living in the Eastern bloc for higher prices, unemployment, a declining birth rate and the impersonal chaos of capitalism in their western counterpart...
...changes were the result of feminist ideology. Female employment in the U.S. has been rising since the 1890s, accompanied, not coincidentally, by a rise in the average age at which women marry, a decline in family size, and a jump in the divorce rate. The sole exceptions to these trends occurred in the 1950s, when, in the prosperous aftermath of World War II, motherhood and babymaking became a kind of national cult: there was a return to earlier marriage, families were bigger and divorce rates stabilized. Though women continued to pour into the workplace during the '50s, this fact...
...action to open Japan's vast chip market to increased sales of American-made semiconductors, U.S. computer makers, who stuff their machines with foreign chips, are worried that trade tension could endanger their supply. In recent months, joint ventures between U.S. and Japanese chipmakers have multiplied at such a rate that it is getting hard to tell where one country's interests end and the other's begin...
...Economic restructuring has already cost millions of Soviets their jobs this year, pushing up the unemployment rate -- as high as 27% in Azerbaijan, for example...
Open and honest forums on AIDS can not only head off the spread of AIDS, but can significantly reduce other problems associated with sexuality. Statistics have shown that education has produced not only a decline in the rate of new infections of AIDS, but a decrease of as much as 95 percent among gay populations of other sexually-transmitted diseases such as gonorrhea and syphilis...