Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question remains of why so many women with firsthand experience of discrimination still refuse to call themselves feminists. There is something in the label that a lot of women, especially young ones, reject even as they acknowledge how much the movement increased the opportunities available to them. Younger women "think of feminists as women who burn bras and don't shave their legs," says Pat Schroeder, dean of Capitol Hill's 29 Congresswomen. "They think of us as the Amazons of the '60s. The facts have no relation to it, but it's become conventional wisdom...
...assume otherwise reflects a male model of activism that has never applied to women. "I wasn't a feminist in my 20s either," she says. Where men tend to get more conservative as they get older, "it's always been the older women who are more radical than the younger women." Her reasoning is that young men have nothing to lose by being rebellious. "Women have more social power when they're young, and also they haven't experienced what's wrong with the world yet. They haven't been in the labor force. Aging, hitting the middle- management ceiling...
...that is metaphysics of a sentimental kind. The bullets remain in the bodies, and the dead stay dead. James Sinkler was trying to impress that raw fact upon his younger brother Tyrone, who was 16 years old. "I told him last week. I told him the week before," James Sinkler says. "Life is not like the movies. When you die, you don't come back. Life is so precious...
...condominium in Manhattan and a $125,000 apartment in Coral Gables, Fla., for business use by Aramony and his associates. The directors of one spin-off, Sales Service/America, which markets United Way trinkets to local affiliates, hired the boss's son, Robert Aramony, to be its president. The younger Aramony's salary has not been disclosed...
Nowaczyk is interrupted by a stream of customers on this busy Friday night. He glances at the I.D.s of those who appear over 30, but scrutinizes the I.D.s of younger patrons, sometimes asking for a second piece of identification, or "backup...