Word: bracket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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City Anonymity. The university study group, Dr. E. Stewart Taylor reports, found that 52 of the aborted patients were under 16, and 135 were aged 16 to 21, while 157 were in the 22-35 bracket and 63 were over 35. There were 230 women who had not previously had a child, and 226 were unmarried; 123 had one to three children, and only 54 had four or more children. In addition to the 226 single women, 43 of those aborted were divorced, leaving only 138 currently married...
...abandoned Laugh-In some time ago as I found it sophomoric, but on reading of its success with viewers, I was beginning to fear that my reaction was indicative of premature aging. Your finding that the majority of its fans are in the 12-to-18-year-old bracket allays my fears...
...police powers. One of the more revealing Gallup polls of recent months asked whether citizens wanted new appointees to the Supreme Court to be conservative or liberal. The response was pro-conservative, 51% to 30%. The economic group strongest for this view was the $3,000-$5,000 bracket-the very segment that would seemingly benefit most from a liberal court's decisions on criminal procedures...
...only five electrical stimuli per heartbeat, as against the standard machine's 13. These five are sufficient for basic screening. Since what is adjudged normal in an ECG varies with the subject's age, early models of the analyzer were set for use on only the age bracket of the volunteers being tested. Later models may be programmed for several age levels, which the technician can select by a simple dial...
...more practical idealism and intellect of the majority of the 18-21 bracket might possibly act as a much needed balance to the whim, superficiality and economic egotism of the present American voting public, a great many of whom are misinformed or, indeed, ignorant. Why not publish a cartoon of a mass of "adult" voters at a political picnic, gurgling free beer and goggling their devotion to an ambitious and ambiguous demagogue...