Word: older
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Candidate Statement: I grew up in Cambridge. I am younger than most of the candidates, so kids find it easier to talk to me. Somebody older than me might not know how to relate to the kids as well...
Nancy Corbin, director of clinical services for student-counseling services at Iowa State University, says her office is seeing a significant increase in requests for counseling from freshmen who are having trouble making the adjustment to college life. Despite all their technical sophistication, she says, older teenagers increasingly lack the skills to deal with personal problems that aren't easily defined or fixed. "They have 'point-and-click' expectations," she says. And they get homesick but have a hard time admitting...
...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...
...Gore] Dropped water balloons on limousines from hotel roof, a trick he learned from his older sister Nancy...
...have the right minerals for radiometric dating. So the researchers relied on known ages of kindred vertebrates (for example, the rhynchosaurs appear to be anatomically primitive cousins of ones known to be about 228 million years old). The scientists pegged the Madagascar fauna at about 2 million years older...