Word: afresh
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...people involved, but from a macro-economic point of view, they represent the baby-booming future. As the giant demographic bulge of the boomers moves deeper into middle age, many of them are severing connections with the institutions where they have worked for decades and are striking out afresh, while they are still hale enough to do something rigorous and challenging with the rest of their lives. "People in their 50s are starting to examine today's professional climate and are asking themselves what else they can be doing," says Deborah Arron, a Seattle career consultant...
They beguiled us, touched us, stirred us. They remade their worlds and taught us to see our own afresh. As part of our series on the 100 most influential people of the century, here are 20 peerless creators
...usual flux and reflux that have also seen harder drugs like cocaine and heroin rise in their allure for a time, and then decline when the consequences became more luridly obvious--only to rise again when a generational forgetfulness sets in and a drug's glamour could assert itself afresh. Indeed, today some experts are worried that an obsessive concern about marijuana may confuse overall perspectives. Says Mark Kleiman, a UCLA professor who specializes in national drug policy: "It's destructive to focus the country on one small part of drug use. Focusing on marijuana ignores the rising...
...system, appropriately called a correctional system, is going to be anything more than a junior prison which converts child offenders into hardened criminals, the answer must be yes. After repaying their debt to society and atoning for their crimes, juvenile offenders must receive at least the opportunity to start afresh...
...real discourse has barely begun. The book provides ample evidence that most encounters between humans have been "missed opportunities." History, he notes, "has so far largely been a chronicle of ability gone to waste." Nonetheless, he believes that "the earth is in the early stages of being criss-crossed afresh by invisible threads, threads uniting individuals who differ by all conventional criteria but who are finding they have aspirations in common...