Word: senioritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ethics disdain labor or money. "Africanized" companies have other personnel problems. Where once an African hand would take orders from a white, he now loathes doing so from a black foreman of another tribe. Too-youthful management also goes down hard with tribesmen accustomed to the rule of the senior elder...
...politics, civil servants are plagued by tribal kinsmen who expect to be put on the dole if not put up in the city man's home. Ministers and senior civil servants can usually afford a separate wing for the "tribal family." Youthful civil servants cannot, and hence often ask to be sent to work in a village as far from their own as possible. To help relieve the burden, Niger's President Hamani Diori has declared war against "family parasitism...
Like many a senior citizen, Nikita Khrushchev was puzzled about what to do with his time. He tried photography, shooting the countryside around his dacha, outside Moscow. Then he tried teaching a jackdaw to talk. Now he has zeroed in on another hobby: hydroponics, the science of growing plants without soil, using pebbles and nutrient-loaded water. He has marked off some pebbled lots, built a system of pipes, and is growing tomatoes with a vengeance...
Harvard Biologist Carroll Williams, once Sláma's senior associate in juvenile hormone research, foresees practical applications of the Czech method "probably within five or six years." Although DMF itself affects the sterility of only a few insect species, Williams points out that other juvenile hormone-like chemicals can be used in the same way to sterilize a wide variety of insect pests. "The day may be near at hand," he says, "when we can do in individual insect pests such as the housefly, mosquito and boll weevil...
Packard surveyed the sex practices of 2,200 junior and senior students in colleges and universities in the U.S., England, Norway, Canada, Germany and Italy. Most significant of his findings is that in the past 20 years the percentage of 21-year-old unmarried U.S. college girls who have had sexual intercourse has risen nearly 60%. In the 1940s, Kinsey reported that about 27% of college-educated females had surrendered their virginity before marriage. Packard's study now puts the figure at 43%. Of particular interest to male exchange students is Packard's international sampling. Sixty-three percent...