Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...present government system continues with the age-old bicameral tradition with clearly defined spheres for each of the bodies...
Although O'Neill gradually rose to become the most powerful and prominent Speaker in the age of modern politics, he never forgot the local roots that helped him get there...
...sixteenth year of his presidency, has not had to wait so long as Eliot, who is famous for leading Harvard into the 20th century. Bok, a 57 year-old former Law School Dean, has been at the helm of Harvard as it has adjusted to the complicated, modern age of universities. In the last decade and a half, Bok has maintained a firm consensus which has allowed the University to rapidly expand as its endowment soared from $725 million to nearly $4 billion...
While Richard von Weizsacker was on the front, drafted at the age of 18, his father, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, was working in the foreign ministry, first as a chief diplomat, and later as an ambassador to the Vatican. His brother, Karl Fredrich, was a prominent physicist, who was at work for the Nazi regime in attempting to develop an atom bomb...
Currently, the English and History departments are absorbing the first impact of what promises to be a large number of retirements as the professors tenured more than a quarter of a century ago approach retirement age. These retirements signal the end of an era of Harvard scholarship which has left both departments struggling to redefine their images while maintaining their reputations...