Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest fears was coming to terms with my sexual orientation," Chang says. "I'm from Orange County, California. It's very conservative. I didn't really know [I was gay when I was younger] simply because I don't think I was in tune with anything. It was do what you have to do: School skating school skating. When I thought about being gay, I'd think `Maybe it's too early to say. I still haven't had any meaningful experiences that would allow me to know...
Offensively, a number of younger players got valuable experience and even carried the team, as evidenced in the fact that all four of the squad's top scorers--sophomore Mike Eckert (16 goals, 40 assists), sophomore Chris Wojcik (27 goals, 13 assists), junior Steve Gaffney (25 goals, nine assists) and junior Jamie Ames (29 goals, one assist)--were non-seniors...
...Means but hardly Rosty's equal as a coalition builder or horse trader. Though Gibbons insists he is a leader, he concedes he has not steeped himself in the arcana of taxation to the extent Rostenkowski has; Gibbons' primary interest has been trade. Some Democrats talked of choosing a younger and more dynamic chairman for Ways and Means, but the move collapsed after Gibbons invoked the nearly sacred rules of seniority...
...success of Fox. Against all odds and most conventional wisdom, Murdoch, the Australian-born media baron, launched Fox's prime-time schedule in 1987 with one night of programming that included Married . . . With Children and The Tracey Ullman Show. The network expanded gradually, targeting its shows to a younger audience and developing a roster of trend-setting hits such as The Simpsons and Beverly Hills, 90210. Still, it has remained a distant No. 4 in the ratings...
Cecil Bykerk, Mutual of Omaha's chief actuary, regards the outcome as inherently unfair. "A younger person might be paying twice or more, as a percentage of income, as a mature person," he says. Salvatore Curiale, New York State's superintendent of insurance, counters that the new scheme is "an unqualified success...