Word: younger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to argue with that kind of thing, but it's dead wrong. The company treats us well, and we shouldn't be penalized when some other company has trouble. We lose good money on somebody else's say-so." A younger miner puts it more bluntly: "If the company gave us protection against wildcat strikes, I'd be willing to cross the picket line. There wouldn't be all this wildcat crap if John L. Lewis [the thunderous U.M.W. leader from 1920 to 1960] were still around. The union has lost control...
...past decade, Las Vegas added 15,000 and Hawaii, prospering on cheap air charters, increased its total by more than 27,000 rooms. Low-cost tourist packages ($319 for travel and lodging in London; only $355 for a return flight from New York to Casablanca) have drawn away the younger set, while retired sun seekers have been lured to Mexico, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. The surprising boom of the Caribbean cruise business added to the damage; many a visitor this winter will merely ride through the Miami area en route from mainland airport to cruise-ship dock. A helter...
...childish and undignified. There are more adult Jimmys and Billys in the South, noted Algeo, partly because there is less infant baptism than up North and nicknames are more likely to get started and stick before the ceremony intervenes. Some pollsters have suggested that the nickname helped Carter with younger voters. But as criticism of Carter has mounted, his seemingly casual, unorthodox approach to the presidency may now be working against...
...blockbusters are downright obsessed with two subjects-youth and sex-that were never too important to earlier successful series. Obviously this twin fixation strikes a popular chord-for the Tuesday night hits win every age group in the Nielsen survey. The America they reflect is younger and sassier than the one that once embraced Lucy and Dobie. Happy Days'frantic pace is TV's equivalent of the erotic drive of Top 40 radio...
...Half the men reported cheating on a wife or lover at least once. The younger the man, the more likely he is to stray...