Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reaching middle age. Here come 75 million aching backs. A generation of reluctant grown-ups is raising children, caring for aging parents and beginning to think about retirement. Instead of pumping iron, preening and networking, they are worrying about orthodontists, skateboards and college tuitions. The backyard now has more appeal than the boardroom...
...Harvard's new president? No one seems to know, even in his own backyard...
Saudi Arabia's King Fahd and Kuwait's Emir Jaber al-Sabah would be deeply distressed to find democracy and Palestine in their backyard. But they could do nothing about it. Other countries with a basic interest in the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, especially Syria and Egypt, would privately applaud Hussein...
...hope that Harvard will not choose as its president someone so ready to use the very selfish argument 'not in my backyard,'" wrote John Bassett '60 in a letter to the committee...
...have never met Dr. Leder, but I hope that Harvard will not choose as its president someone so ready to use the very selfish argument, "not in my backyard." John Bassett...