Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...authors, who had often been slotted in the final 15 minutes but who disappeared from the show almost entirely.) One by one, competing talk-show hosts -- Merv Griffin, Joey Bishop, Cavett, Alan Thicke, Joan Rivers, Pat Sajak -- fell away. Even Arsenio Hall, whose show has captured a new and younger audience, has failed to dislodge Carson from atop the late-night ratings mountain...
Leno became the obvious choice for NBC. His ratings showed that he kept Carson's core audience and also attracted some younger, more affluent viewers. Leno is more in synch with the zeitgeist: Letterman's pervasive irony seems less suited to the '90s than Leno's sincerity. For NBC, giving Letterman the job was a lose-lose proposition: the network would lose Late Night with David Letterman, the best and most profitable late-late-night show on TV, and it would lose Leno...
...other political observers said the younger Vellucci isn't the kind of politician to shy away from a fight. "If Peter was going to run away, he would have run away from the race with Marie Howe," said Clifford A. Truesdell '66, a seven-year Vellucci aide and campaign manager for the 1982 election...
...intellectual development. Among subjects who are now older than 30, the only group that falls significantly below the norm is former brain-tumor patients, some of whom have lasting social, economic or psychological problems. But not all. About 10% report salaries of more than $50,000 a year. The younger patients may not fare as well. During one period in the past, victims of childhood leukemia were given prophylactic radiation treatments directed at the head. A number have suffered small but permanent reductions...
...described the average security guard as an aging white male who was underscreened, undertrained, undersupervised, underpaid and underregulated. The only significant change in that profile, according to Hallcrest Systems of McLean, Va., which closely monitors the industry, is that today's private guard is more likely to be much younger and black or Hispanic...