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Word: youngsters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many educators would agree with Coleman that school perpetuates adolescence by shielding the student from real work experience. But how does a youngster acquire experience when there are not that many paying jobs available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: ... If You Can Find It | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...quiet Bahama anchorages of an evening, the youngster rowing a dinghy across to a neighboring boat is likely to be looking for a friend working on the same study assignment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Cruising: The Good Life Afloat | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

...Plan. The idea of establishing a lower minimum wage for teen-agers has picked up support even among some liberal economists, who believe that forcing employers to pay youths as much as adults only discourages them from hiring the 14% of youngsters aged 16 to 19 who are jobless. Labor leaders argue that establishing a teen-age differential would prompt some employers to fire adult workers and hire youths to replace them. Brennan did propose that a teen-ager's pay be upped to the full adult minimum wage after 13 weeks on the job, but he offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAGES: Maxi-Split on Minimums | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...student with lunch money is an obvious target. Gang fights frequently spill over into school buildings. Vandalism alone costs schools $200 million a year nationally. Violent acts are often so seemingly meaningless that they defy reason. Outside Intermediate School 155 in New York's desolate South Bronx, a youngster was nearly stomped to death recently during an argument over a bottle of soda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Blackboard Battlegrounds: A Question of Survival | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

...predicts that Miles will eventually integrate its student body "up to a critical mass of maybe 30 per cent--but this is at least ten years away." For now, he is working on an exchange program with predominantly white colleges--including Harvard--as "a way for the white youngster to work out this racism--this part of himself...

Author: By Dale S. Russakoff, | Title: Miles From Harvard: The Black College | 2/7/1973 | See Source »

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