Word: upping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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People constantly point out teenagers' shortcomings. I am tired of hearing about those stereotypical mistakes. What is adolescence about, anyway? We don't need someone telling us we're going about growing up all wrong. The youth of today need to get support from adult members of society so that...
In Mark Katz's commentary "Power Children" [ESSAY, Nov. 15], he criticized the teen worshipping of recent years. I am a part of the generation that has grown up with countless television shows and self-help books on how to be a teenager. You need not worry that teen worship...
Like Katz, I grew up when teens were tolerated, not celebrated. Now, at 46, I am an antiquated adult with a 16-year-old who thinks that I was stupid to be alive during the civil rights movement. And he has the media, insistently telling him how smart the sacred...
Atlanta prides itself on being "the city too busy to hate," but it's not too busy to quarrel about the mayor's pugnacious strategy for battling the Southeastern Legal Foundation. That conservative group filed a federal lawsuit in August alleging that the city discriminates against white males by requiring...
Answering her charges, Campbell snaps, "She hasn't done her homework." The city, he points out, is about to embark on projects, including an airport expansion, that may generate $10 billion in contracts over the next five years. Under the existing program, nearly $4 billion would flow to companies owned...