Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before 1993, all Harvard professors were subject to mandatory retirement, which ensured younger faculty would find chairs open for them...
...whole institution and community make certain on the one hand, the people who choose to stay can continue to be active and productive...and at the same time ensure a flow of younger people into the system?" Rudenstine said. "It's pretty much a zero-sum game in appointments...
...short of this is that younger people have fewer opportunities," Fineberg says. "This can't be good, especially in ever-changing and dynamic fields...
There are a zillion reasons for the collapse of the genre: preposterous production and running costs, the aging or death (often from aids) of top practitioners, the defection of others to Disney movies, the ignoring of a younger generation's pop-musical tastes. Says Michael Price, executive director of the pacesetting Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut: "In the Golden Age of the musical, what you had was a lot of producers who threw a lot of product up into the air and a couple of shows stuck to the ceiling." Now, musicals are so costly that producers...
...Minh concluded that their country was stagnating and decided to build an internal market while inviting foreign investment. The country still has a one-party state and a sluggish bureaucracy, but overall the economy is booming, tapping the vitality of a population in which 60% are 25 or younger. The friendly, open attitude toward Americans was also striking, despite about 3 million Vietnamese killed during the war. "We wish to close the past and look to the future," said Do Muoi...