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Word: sene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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While other 18-year-olds agonize over which pretty dress or funky pair of shoes to buy, Juniace Sene Charles worries about "what this month's electricity and water bill are going to be." The petite teenager, who came to Miami with her mother, younger brother and sister from Haiti two years ago, is the family's financial mainstay. Every day when classes end at Edison High School, she rushes to her job at Wendy's on Biscayne Boulevard. Her take-home weekly salary of about $75 is augmented occasionally by her mother's earnings from babysitting. "I'm chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Caught Between Two Worlds for Children, | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

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