Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poll of second-year students conducted by the Harbus revealed an overwhelming proportion endorsing smaller sections, an increased use of technology, tighter integration of courses, trimesters and other main features of the drafted proposals. Most, however, withhold endorsement of a plan to accept younger applicants...
Strictly medical problems, like dealing with cancer, are tough enough. Should women under 50 have mammograms, when tests may be inconclusive in younger women? And if prostate cancer often progresses so slowly that most aging men who incur it will die of something else, should a 70-year-old have surgery, with its risk of incontinence and impotence? Should his managed-care gatekeeper okay payment...
...attraction went deeper than mutual admiration and concern. It was as if each woman saw in the other an uncompleted part of herself. The staid Old World thinker, comfortably married to a college professor, undoubtedly took vicarious enjoyment in McCarthy's romantic affairs. Arendt, six years younger than her friend, personified a high culture unattainable in America. McCarthy died in 1989, having spent nearly the last third of her life in Europe with her fourth and final husband...
MARIA LA BAJA: Preying on Victims Colombians are heartsick over the plight of nine-year-old Erika Delgado, the sole survivor of a plane crash that took the lives of 51 people, including her mother, father and younger brother, outside Cartagena on Jan. 11. Suffering from fractures and pneumonia, the grief-stricken child has begun to recall the painful details of the accident. Probably pushed from the plane by her mother after it struck the ground and split apart, she landed in a bed of algae and water lilies. Then, according to Erika, someone approached, ignored her cries for help...
...great leader...very good at helping younger kids, especially midshipmen," said Duane Lawrence '95, a classmate and fellow ROTC participant. "Everyone respected...