Word: grandchildren
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Their critics say that the Concord group's proposed cuts for retirees violate the trust of people who paid into Social Security and Medicare for years. The Concord argument rests strongly on a moral plea of its own: older Americans should not burden their children and grandchildren with the task of paying off the debt. Peterson likes to quote Thomas Jefferson's observation to James Madison that passing on debt to future generations is "swindling futurity." Is it possible to make seniors sit still for such talk? Perhaps it is. The sky didn't fall when Congress approved the Clinton...
...life I'm focusing on love, more intensely because of the probable but not inevitable brevity of my time. It's just the relationship with Jane [Kenyon] is better than ever, and then the grandchildren--but this is commonplace, I suppose, I also have a ninety-year-old mother who is of course going to die, but her mind is marvelous...
...makes large-scale denunciations which provoke initial skepticism and an unwillingness to give in to being targeted as the perpetrator, but ultimately win your empathy and your admission of guilt. Bogosian suggests that if we're only here for quick consumption, his work is pointless: "you can tell your grandchildren one day, yes Eric Bogosian came out and played a dirty filthy bum and I applauded...You just came in for the show, maybe even ate something in Harvard Square? Some ethnic food, maybe? Food never tastes better than when you get it from some third world country where everyone...
Zetzel leaves his wife Geraldine (Kohlenberg); two daughters, Judith Z. Nathanson of Philadelphia and Ellen Z. Lambert of New York; a son, James E.G. Zetzel of New York; two stepchildren, Teresa Kohlenberg of Watertown and Andrew Max Kohlenberg of Providence; three grandchildren and two stepgrandchildren...
...only miracle about The Chevy Chase Show is that the star was still showing his face on national TV by the end of the week. His Tuesday-night debut was the sort of disaster TV fans will recall for their grandchildren. Nervous and totally at sea, Chase tried everything, succeeded at nothing. He shot basketballs from the stage, fawned embarrassingly over guests (Goldie Hawn and Whoopi Goldberg), took pratfalls that fell flat and, in one desperate moment, boogalooed in the middle of the stage, pleading with the apathetic crowd, "Everybody, shake it!" He recycled old material shamelessly, not just from...