Sentences with phrase «half of her adult»

The visible failure of the war on drugs, combined with a generational tipping point in attitudes, has poll after poll showing a majority of adults favouring the legalization or at least decriminalization of recreational cannabis use.

Today, over 40 % of adults in America report feeling lonely, and research suggests that the real number may well be higher.

Brands these days have more access than ever to customers» personal information — and a new survey by marketing tech company SDL reveals two - thirds of adults are concerned about how marketers use that information.

Fully 29 percent of adult workers at companies with fewer than 25 employees were uninsured in 2007.

This survey suggests 87 percent of adult Americans check their business emails outside of working hours.

Since then we've had Google Voice, Microsoft Cortana and Amazon Echo Alexis, but now voice search is poised for rapid growth with 55 percent of teens and 41 percent of adults now using it more than once a day.

Kids (and plenty of adults) will stuff obscene amounts of Hershey's bars, mini Snickers, Tootsie Rolls, lollipops, and even (for some unfathomable reason) Candy Corn down their gullets over the weekend and well past the official Halloween itself next Tuesday.

Almost 40 % of adults between the ages of 18 and 34 said that they subscribe to a news outlet, and said they did so because they wanted to support the organization's mission.

I've dealt with sensitive teeth for much of my adult life, but I can usually get my tooth pain under control by using a toothpaste that's designed for sensitive teeth for a few weeks.

The Harvard Study of Adult Development also found that close relationships to family, spouses and friends was a major mood booster.

With 28 % of adults in the U.S. having limited or no access to bank and credit card accounts, Shahbazi saw a «wide space» worth US$ 1 trillion in GDP a year that needed to be filled.

In fact, a recent survey found that 86.5 million Americans — 42 percent of the adult population — had used at least one on - demand service, and some 45 million Americans, roughly 22 percent of the adult population, had reported having worked in the growing on - demand economy.

There is a growing number of adults on the autism spectrum who want to enter the workforce but can't.

The fact is, a higher proportion of teenagers work at a minimum wage job in most provinces across Canada today than a decade ago (49 per cent across Canada, 70 per cent in Ontario in 2016), but a growing proportion of adults have been doing so as well.

The majority of the adults who participated were 53 and older.

Rodney Schutt, SVP and general manager of HyperSound business at Turtle Beach, says the problem today is that just 20 % to 25 % of adults who have hearing loss actually buy hearing aids.

Last year, 28 percent of adults told the National Foundation for Credit Counseling that they primarily learned personal finance from their parents.

McMaster, Mattis, and Tillerson quickly became known in the foreign policy establishment as the «axis of adults.»

Lessons from the longest study on happiness — the Harvard Study of Adult Development — which tracked annually the lives of 724 men of varying economic statuses show that «Good relationships keep us happier and healthier.

They also improved their scores on the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale, which doctors use to rate the social, occupational and psychological functioning of adults.

This latest trailer comes just a couple weeks after the 10th anniversary of GTA: III, thought by many to be a watershed moment where video games began to be seen as a serious form of adult entertainment that could also rake in millions of dollars.

Benihana: I received a hefty $ 30 dinner certificate to this Japanese steakhouse (requires the purchase of an adult dinner entrée before it can be used) but didn't have time to test it out.

SHERYL - LEE Moroni has no regrets about her decision 21 years ago to step away from her career as a stenographer and move into the world of adult dance.

Most parents are aware that over the course of an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $ 1 million less than those with a bachelor's degree and are 50 percent more likely to be unemployed.

There is one that is so large it looks like the forearm of an adult man, and another which is a pork sausage contained within a rice sausage.

If successful, could Zimbabwe's EcoCash overtake Kenya's M - Pesa — which, with a four - year head start has signed up two - thirds of the adult population in that country — as the world's gold standard for wireless financial services?

According to PwC, 44 percent of all adults in the U.S. are aware of the sharing economy and 19 percent have engaged in a sharing economy transaction.

A large number of adults returning to school are also looking for an edge.

As Bloomberg Businessweek recently noted: «his corporate leadership is a kind of teenager's fantasy of adult power.»

The San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles is the heart of the adult entertainment industry.

I put the question of parodies to Pink Visual, a producer of adult content that threw a party during the Consumer Electronics Show last week, and got an answer from general counsel Jessica Pena - Sackett.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 74 percent of adults suffer from speech anxiety.

A greater portion of adults living in poverty (66 %) and near poverty (59 %) were relying solely on cell phone service, the CDC said.

About 61 percent of adults say they find investing in the stock market «scary or intimidating.»

A survey sponsored by U.S. - based Council for Research Excellence reveals 85 % of adults are watching on average 64 minutes of ads daily.

In fact, Radesky points out, such spaces are important for the mental health of adults as well as kids.

The findings should also probably serve as a warning to the growing number of adults who behave like high school sophomores and attempt to measure their self worth in likes, followers, and the empty admiration of near strangers.

Another coauthor of the study, Dr. Howard Falcon - Lang of the Royal Holloway University of London, noted in the release that although the juvenile shark teeth were found in the fecal matter of adults, there is still some question as to why.

And according to the MPAA's stats about these frequent moviegoers, they love their mobile devices: «Frequent moviegoers tend to own more key technology products, such as smartphones and tablets, than the general population of adults 18 years and older,» reads the report.

At 9 p.m. on Jan. 8, he saw a line out the door of an adult - use dispensary in the town of Breckenridge.

GenForward is a survey of adults age 18 to 30 by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with the AP - NORC Center.

At one time, the thought of dining solo carried with it a connotation of isolation, but it is now an accepted part of modern life, with 47 percent of all adult eating occasions occurring alone.

A world of looming economic insecurity, ecological disaster, and even nuclear war doesn't exactly seem like the type of place that would invite those responsible for steering the fate of humanity (i.e. all of us adults) to kick back and goof off awhile.

People who marry and don't divorce have about double the net worth of their peers who never wed, according to Jay Zagorsky, an economist and research scientist at Ohio State University, who studied the financial patterns of thousands of adults born from 1957 to 1964.

«Because almost 90 % of adult smokers started smoking before the age of 18 and nearly 2,500 youth smoke their first cigarette every day in the U.S., lowering nicotine levels could decrease the likelihood that future generations become addicted to cigarettes and allow more currently addicted smokers to quit,» the agency wrote in a release.

While there are plenty of activities for families to enjoy together onboard, kid - exclusive spaces often have children not wanting to leave, and parents are likely to feel the same of their adult - only venues as well.

With 20 percent of adult Internet users active on Twitter, engaging Tweets are becoming increasingly important.

Despite the fact that in October 2015, Google + reportedly had nearly 18 percent of adults using the platform, it still has only one - third of the user engagement of Facebook.

You could describe this as social media with training wheels, and make the argument that it's helpful for kids to learn to use social media under the eye of an adult.

With In2Books, for example, ePals helps students in grades 3 to 5 to improve their reading skills with the support of adult mentors in a safe, online learning environment.