Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were looking for the best metaphor for last week's earthquake, its power and ruthlessness, one could hardly do better than this brute subtraction: at 4:30 a.m. on Monday there was a three-story apartment building. Younger people lived on the second and third floors; the older folks tended to live downstairs so as not to climb steps. At 4:31 it was a two-story apartment building, with all the carnage that suggests...
...just -- it is amazing, I mean, I am some years younger than you and do not work as long or as hard a day as you do, and I must say, for you to move into this thing now, and you can't really let your guard down now for the next eight days...
...right or to see their kids grow up. But that presumes that older women will always marry men their age or older. Once it is more acceptable for women over 45 to have children, the pool of men open to them expands. Then younger men who want to start families may feel freer to fall in love with older women. For those couples, there indeed could be better living through chemistry...
Indeed, the health risks of being pregnant at 50 are greater than those at 30, but careful monitoring minimizes those risks. Older mothers using donated eggs give birth to babies that do just as well as those born to younger women, according to Dr. Mark Sauer, a fertility expert at the University of Southern California...
...Actresses have complained for years that their male counterparts don't run into the same career roadblocks they do once they reach 40, but the dilemma is more serious than whether Meryl Streep is in as much demand as Jack Nicholson. Lauren Hutton and stories about older women and younger men notwithstanding, the woman who can no longer give birth may sometimes feel as used up in modern America as she was in preindustrial times, when bearing children was a key to economic survival...