Word: households
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, Gil's household is a sea of tranquillity compared with those of his siblings. One sister is single-parenting a potential juvenile delinquent. Another is married to a character played by this summer's one-man nerd fest, Rick Moranis (Ghostbusters II and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids), who has their two-year-old memorizing square roots and reading Kafka. Then there's a brother, who drifts back home looking for a new way to get rich without working, help with his gambling debts and a place to park his illegitimate child, whose name is Cool, whose skin...
...outcome of the tax debate will be of keen interest to the newest force in Japanese politics: women. As traditional keepers of the household ledgers, women felt the pinch of the consumption tax most acutely. In the recent election, that issue galvanized them not only to throw their votes to the Socialists but also to enter the political arena in record numbers. Female candidates increased their numbers in the upper house from 23 to 33; they now account for 13% of the chamber's seats. Half of those elected were Socialists like Doi. The J.S.P. leader, however, downplayed her role...
...transitional" husbands. But transitional couples, caught between new ideology and old sex roles, may cooperate in believing a family myth that the husband does half the babyminding and the chores. In fact, only 20% of Hochschild's couples, who ranged from working class to upper middle class, split household tasks and child rearing equally...
...ahead to the next twelve months, 72% expected conditions to stay the same or improve, while just 24% of those polled saw the economy getting worse. Asked about their spending plans in the coming year, 65% said they thought it would be a good time to buy a major household item -- a refrigerator, for example, or a television...
...concerns have some justification. Last month the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment issued a report concluding that power lines are a legitimate health issue. More troubling, it suggested that household wiring, appliances like toasters and electric blankets, and such items as TV sets and computer terminals, all of which create electromagnetic fields, might also have an impact on health...