Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cooking, even in households where both partners work. Glamour magazine surveys have found, for example, that the proportion of women who claim that they share child-care duties equally with their partners has actually dropped in the past three years, from 40% to 31%. "The big disappointment is that younger men aren't that different from their fathers," says University of Texas Sociologist Glenn...
DEATH PENALTY. There are 32 death-row prisoners around the country who were younger than 18 when they committed their crimes. In early November the court will consider whether capital punishment is permissible in such cases when it hears the appeal of a convicted killer who was 15 at the time of the crime...
Ersek, Felsen and Grim all agree that the job of captain is just as important whether it is shared by three players, or the customary two. Due to their contrasting personalities and on-field styles, the tri-captains play different roles for the younger players looking for leadership on and off the field...
...entire community losing its ideals and energies. Theo's marriage to Snow Mullins, a red-neck girl with a ninth-grade education, was a gauntlet thrown down at the Quicks' precarious sense of stature, indeed at Mountain City's communal illusion of social propriety. Theo's younger brother Rafe remembers, "I mean, it was embarrassing at the wedding, seeing how Mom's friends tried to keep their faces from showing how horrified they were when the bride's side of the church started filling...
...about attractive young professionals grappling with '80s problems: managing relationships, balancing a career and personal life, reconciling ideals with the demands of the real world. Another influence has been the advent of people meters, the new ratings technology that is expected to mean higher ratings for shows watched by younger, upscale viewers. Most important may be the fact that TV writers and producers -- mostly well-paid men and women in their 20s, 30s and 40s -- are simply creating shows about what they know. They don't know much about autoworkers in Detroit...