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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Simple Life: Goodbye to having it all. | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

...Harvard's new president? No one seems to know, even in his own backyard...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: In Search of the Real Neil | 4/6/1991 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Some Advice for King Hussein | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Philip P. Pan and Maggie S. Tucker, S | Title: ...And Then There Were Eight | 2/28/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leder Should Not Be President | 2/16/1991 | See Source »

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