Word: teens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coke argues that its understanding of teens is based on years of study, including the two-year Global Teenager program that employed graduate students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The OK campaign is only the company's latest effort to extend its dominance over the world teen market: earlier this year, Coke launched its highly successful "Obey Your Thirst" campaign for Sprite, which also pointedly refuses to overpromise by suggesting that the drink will not produce beautiful women or athletic victories but only relieve a dry throat...
...Babbitt and Breyer. Each had drawbacks. For Arnold, it was his health. He is under treatment for lymphoma, a form of cancer. He had also raised the suspicions of some women's groups with two of his opinions on the bench, one that upheld a parental-consent statute regarding teen abortions and another that permitted the Jaycees to exclude women. With Whitewater still an unresolved issue, there were also rumblings in the Senate about the propriety of the President bringing to Washington another of his friends from Arkansas. For good measure, the Wall Street Journal reported that in the 1970s...
...their worst, however, rewards could backfire by ending up fostering an atmosphere in which people refuse to do anything for free. Erika Taylor, 18, took advantage of an Ohio welfare program that pays teen mothers a bonus of $62 a month if they attend school regularly until graduation, but she concedes that "people I know are just after the extra money." Perhaps that is why the program also includes tough penalties for slackers. Mothers who skip school or drop out find their welfare checks reduced $62 a month. Over the past few years, as the Ohio program has proved...
Seeking to put a positive spin on the caning of Michael Fay, the American teen convicted of vandalism, Singapore authorities released this informative diagram in a government-affiliated paper...
...more than an hour, former state Sen. George Bachrach (D-Watertown) Richard E. Fenton and state Rep. Mark Roosevelt '78 (D-Beacon Hill) addressed approximately 100 Boston-area high school students at an event to celebrate Teen and Children's Advocacy...