Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson opened up the day on an ambivalent note, defeating the younger M.I.T., 11-6, but failing to mount their potent attack...
...vision. "I felt it was time to reposition the fashion magazine from a book of endless pages of clothes to a style magazine that readers would pick up and stay with for a few hours," she recalls. When she was fired in 1988 by S.I. Newhouse, who wanted a younger look for Vogue, media buccaneer Rupert Murdoch came forward with a proposal that Mirabella found irresistible...
...breaks on mortgage interest paid by higher- salaried home buyers. Thatcher had opposed any measures that would discourage homeownership. It stepped up an already scheduled increase in the benefit paid weekly to mothers for each child; the new level will be $16.56 for the eldest child, $13.43 for younger ones. By contrast the budget imposed new levies on executives who receive "in-kind" benefits such as the use of company cars and mobile telephones; private car phones provided by employers will be taxed $356 a year. These measures hardly add up to a change in direction, but they do mark...
...prestigious Westinghouse Science Talent Search this year, 18 were Asian American. Yet while there are no statistics on the shift among Asian Americans away from the sciences, there is no doubt it is happening. "I can see a difference in those students just two or three years younger than me," says Mark Kuo, 22, a Harvard senior who, along with his two brothers, was a Westinghouse finalist while at the Bronx High School of Science in New York City. "They're more interested in public policy and social action than in what their parents preached about economic security through medicine...
Health officials are concerned that the desire to stay slim may be contributing to the high rate of smoking among teenage girls, who tend to take up the habit at a younger age than boys. Just this month the American Journal of Public Health reported that more than twice as many adolescent girls as boys said they were worried about gaining weight if they quit smoking. In years past, cigarette companies capitalized on such fears. Lucky Strike ads in the 1920s encouraged women to "Reach for the Lucky Strike Instead of a Sweet." Unfortunately, doctors note, even modest weight gains...