Word: elders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...median stock holding for those under 35 is $11,900; for those age 64 or older, $62,500. That infers abysmal yearly growth of about 5% and no additional savings over decades. Three possible explanations: today's young are saving more, pre-retirees are spendthrifts, or the elder set is shifting to conservative investments too early. My hunch is it's the latter, and that's one way to come up short...
...easy: admitting you've been wrong, as Falwell did, takes guts. Mild and incomplete as his words were, they took real courage--many evangelicals, even more inflexible, howled that Falwell was letting them down. More importantly, those words will have real force. For the religious right, Falwell is an elder statesman: he is a famous Christian radio personality, the chancellor of Liberty University and one of the most powerful ministers in the country. As one gay-rights advocate told the Lynchburg News and Advance, "If Jerry Falwell says it, parents will think it's the right thing...
...longevity to take his run beyond its strongholds of New Hampshire and South Carolina. Also like Bradley, McCain will have to do it without his party's apparatus, which he spent so much time infuriating last week. But that "only helps him up here," says New Hampshire elder Rudman. "I wish that happened every week...
...also never been asked to hold an administrative position by the College, something commonly done by distinguished elder professors...
...recommends finding a special role. Cheryl and Robert Jones of Oklahoma City are recent stepgrandparents of two boys, five and seven. "It had been a long time since I was around children," Cheryl admits, "and there's a lot about dealing with them that I had forgotten." Since the elder boy is interested in computers, she quizzes colleagues at work about the best websites for kids. When he visits her, they explore the sites together...