Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alan Greenspan has always been bold enough to make momentous changes in his life. After studying music at Manhattan's prestigious Juilliard School and touring for a year as a clarinet and saxophone player in a dance band, he decided at age 19 to forsake his musical career for college and the arcane discipline of economics. Eight years later, while studying for his Ph.D. at Columbia University, Greenspan abandoned academia to become a partner in a new consulting firm. In 1974, having never held a government position, the economist waltzed into Washington as chairman of President Gerald Ford's Council...
...broader scale, royalty commands loyalty perhaps because monarchs are the last great icons of our secular age, the only larger-than-life figures who can still quicken belief while dwelling in mystery. If God is dead, long live the Queen! Their titles alone suggest that kings and princesses are ambassadors from the realm of fairy tale: Who ever heard of Good President Wenceslaus or The Prime Minister and the Pea? And if the very rich, as Hemingway said, are different from you and me, then the royals are different from the very rich, separated by some indefinable chasm from those...
...faith, they must also be rather ordinary to hold our sympathy. Humanity is the one thing they can never abdicate. So it is that every king proverbially longs to see how the other half lives: the tiny Dalai Lama, installed as God-King of Tibet at the age of four, used to stand on the roof of his palace and wistfully gaze through a telescope at the other little boys playing in the streets of Lhasa; the British rulers faithfully follow the trials of everyday drudges on the local soap opera Crossroads. The screen that separates us from royals...
...Wilson would seem past the age for such high school rituals as pep rallies, homecoming dances and senior proms. But she spent a good deal of this past school year reliving rites like these at Parkway West High in suburban St. Louis. She attended the senior picnic, the homecoming parade and the annual King of Hearts dance, a Sadie Hawkins-style bash where the girls ask out the boys. And when 550 seniors got their diplomas at graduation ceremonies last weekend, Wilson was there for all the speeches, hugs, cheers and tears...
...rapid growth of legitimate Mexican health services has helped change the image of many border towns once better known for services of a seedier sort. Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, for example, came of age serving liquor to thirsty gringos during Prohibition. More recently, they have catered to amorous misadventures of Americans, offering prostitution, easy abortions and quick divorces. "Standards are a lot higher than they were ten years ago," says Ana Maria Ley Estrella, president of the Tijuana Dental Association...