Word: ageing
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Also, the average age of Atlantic City's casinos is 26 years, making it difficult for the outdated gambling houses to compete with newly built ones in nearby states, says Chris Snow, a CFA and senior analyst at CreditSights, an independent credit-research firm. (See 10 things to do in Las Vegas...
...national health insurance and disability benefits. Westerwelle thinks that should change, and is also pushing for lower taxes and a new simplified tax system. The opposition Social Democrats branded him a "sociopolitical arsonist" while the Greens warned that the welfare state would be pared back to a "social ice age." Merkel was not amused, either. "I've made it clear that what Guido Westerwelle said is not my choice of words. That's not my style," she told the CDU party faithful. (Read: "Guido Westerwelle, Germany's Mittelman...
Many of the Britons mourning Michael Foot, who died March 3 at 96, did not vote Labour when he led the party. Some had not yet reached voting age when he (right, with his wife, the author and filmmaker Jill Craigie) helmed the party's 1983 parliamentary campaign. Some had not yet been born. And a thumping majority of those who were eligible to vote chose to retain Margaret Thatcher as prime minister, after Britain's 1982 Falklands-war victory burnished her popularity...
...values. In a country that lost faith in its political classes after being chivied into the Iraq war on the basis of false intelligence and then lost any residual respect for Westminster amid revelations that some MPs subsidized their lavish lifestyles with taxpayers' money, Foot symbolized a more honorable age. "How politics could do with his integrity today," wrote the Labour MP Diane Abbott in a tribute to her onetime leader...
Unfortunately for Harvard, the Crimson’s best showing at the plate of the season came on a day when its opponents hit the voting age in runs—half of which were scored in the third inning...