Word: ageing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...age and money in Los Angeles: "Sally Worthington Hayes is one of those L.A. women who slip into an alternative dimension sometime after their fortieth birthday. It works the same way with men in this city. You think you're talking to a college student, what with his rock 'n' roll T-shirt, his skateboard, his bong collection, and his extensive knowledge of low-fi British indie music, then you find out he's fifty-eight, with six kids and three percent of Google. What do these people do to themselves?...When I tell people my age in L.A., they...
...flawed one. But Ayres succeeds best in his doubting moments of financial self-reflection - the kind that everyone seems to be undergoing these days. Is it wise to put everything on my credit cards? Do I really need this caviar face treatment? Or, as Ayres writes, "does anyone my age have any money? Or are my financial issues generational in nature?" A hundred pages later, he will move in with a woman and score a mortgage from a little bank called IndyMac, which would eventually go on to become the second-largest bank failure in history. Somehow, Ayres knew...
...Brighton, according to NECN.com. The body was found in a state of some decomposition, so no definitive signs of foul play have yet been identified. An autopsy scheduled to be performed today is expected to reveal more information about the identity of the indiviudal, including its gender and age, according to NECN.com. This case, like all incidences involving bodies discovered in Boston, will be prosecuted by the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office, according to the Boston Police Department...
...side of tragedy. In Osama, about a young girl in Taliban-era Kabul who poses as a boy in order to provide for her widowed mother, he highlights the plight of women under that draconian regime. His awareness of the human side of history was honed early on. At age 5 he was transfixed by a showing of Lawrence of Arabia at his hometown cinema hall in Kabul. He haunted movie theaters after that, taping together remnants of filmstrips to make his own films, which he would then show to his friends in tiny makeshift movie halls fashioned from cardboard...
...recently told TIME, reprising a theme he sounded more than 30 years ago, when the state first put him in the governor's mansion in the aftermath of Watergate and during the last throes of the Vietnam War. "There is not a lot of room for political maneuvering. The age of dividing up the easy surpluses is over. We've been on a borrowing binge, both in the private and public sector, and we're going to have to enter a time of belt-tightening." (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...