Word: elder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elder Dr. Cole's experience is in psychopharmacology, which involves treating mental illness with prescription drugs...
Senior editor Nancy Gibbs, who supervised the project, knows the debate firsthand. She is an elder of her Presbyterian church -- the congregation where her mother is the first-ever female clerk. Says Gibbs: "People feel that you can go to church and know something familiar will be there. Women are seeking access to institutions -- corporations, the military, the Senate -- that have been led by men, but none has such an old tradition." Subtleties of human emotion are an important factor in this conflict. Associate editor Richard N. Ostling, who wrote the article, notes that "many people view the present conflict...
Most all groups of conventioneers here appeared to have caught the fever--from journalists to volunteers and from youngsters to the elder contingent...
...them. They were incredibly close and virtually inseparable and would often go off on their own during the conference. Having lived together for several years, they were not only lovers but also partners in their relentless activism in the Green movement in Germany. Gert was 25 years her elder, yet this difference in age seemed completely secondary to their relationship...
...that spirit, he did not withdraw into bitterness, but stayed on as chairman of the Social Democrats -- and as leader of the Socialist International -- and evolved into an honored, even beloved, elder statesman. One of the crowning moments of his later years came after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, when he delivered a ringing speech in Berlin that ended with the motto of unification: "What belongs together will now grow together...