Word: agee
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Those laid off from manufacturing jobs face even harder struggles in an age of weak unions, flimsy safety nets and cutthroat competition from overseas. "The people who used to scrimp by are just not making it today," laments Jodie Goodwin, who heads a group of Houston social-action church coalitions. "Families that never were at risk before are having to make basic, tough - decisions about which bill to pay: utilities, groceries or rent...
From across the country come poignant stories of lifelong workers facing a hollow old age. Charles Thibodeau, 58, was laid off from the James River paper mill in Fitchburg, Mass., last spring -- just 3 1/2 years short of retirement. Although his children are grown, living on unemployment has required some belt tightening. "Not much you can do," he sighs. "Pay the bills. Taxes are going up, and we don't have much money coming in." It makes for a simpler life. "Once in a while we used to like to go out to a lounge and have a few dances...
...like health insurance, may be tied to the number of hours logged, and so, in a slowdown, workers suddenly find themselves without coverage. Mayo Gonzales, a 57-year-old carpenter in Ontario, Calif., did not amass the 250 hours he needed this year to keep his benefits. "At my age -- at any age -- it's very important to have insurance because anything can happen," he says. "This is one of the worst slowdowns I have seen. We had one in the early '60s and another in 1982, but not like this...
Wildest Haircuts For young men, especially blacks, the preferred 'do left many a head looking like a billboard. Peace symbols, Batman logos, initials, even faces decorated pates. For the less daring but still young at heart, the Age of Aquarius ponytail hung in there...
...implications of the American entertainment conquest extend well beyond economics. As the age of the military superpowers ends, the U.S., with no planning or premeditation by its government, is emerging as the driving cultural force around the world, and will probably remain so through the next century. The Evil Empire has fallen. The Leisure Empire strikes back...