Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Employers, who provide coverage for 85% of their workers, are staggering under the costs. Among the hardest hit are industrial giants, which support millions of aging retirees, whose medical bills far exceed those of younger people. Ford Motor, for example, was compelled to make a fourth-quarter write- off of $7.5 billion to account for the costs of providing medical coverage + for its retirees, a blow that will probably force the automaker to report the largest annual loss (nearly $7 billion) ever suffered by a U.S. corporation. AT&T expects to take a similar write-off this year, and General...
...apartment in North Philadelphia with the city's jagged skyline pointing up behind, Orphans traces the lives of Treat (Joe Pacheco) and Phillip (Steven Longmuir), two orphaned brothers in their 20s. Treat, a petty crook with violent tendencies, has kept his simple-minded younger brother Phillip alone in the house for years. Phillip's combination of childlike ignorance and unnerving acuity is at once beguiling and somewhat unbelievable...
...first was current Empress Michiko, whomarried Emperor Akihito in 1959; the second wasKiko Kawashima, wife of Naruhito's younger brotherAkishino
...other a fourth-grader with limpid brown eyes and cream-colored skin. "She called me a whore," said the older girl. With agonizing patience, Pannell unravels the dispute. The girls are friends. The day before, the older girl invited her friend home for the first time. There the younger child saw her friend's house was in disrepair, that the outside door was battered and punctured by what she thought were bullet holes. At school the next day she told friends about the house and the broken door. The older girl, insulted and hurt, fired back that at least...
...native New Englander, I'd never skied before last January, and my inexperience shamed me in my younger years. I envied the lift tickets that my friends and neighbors hung so nonchalantly from the zippers of their brightly colored parkas...