Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overseas community of Vietnamese refugees. And I would not seek to come back to Vietnam as the President if we were successful. I am old, too old to take power again. But I believe I can encourage the struggle of those who want democracy and freedom, especially for the younger generation, and after that I can use my experience to promote reconciliation and guard against the chance that we could lose our freedoms again...
...think that the next session of the Communist Party Congress, scheduled for April, will bring change. We know that there are deep divisions, and if the younger reform faction fails -- I don't believe it will -- then there would be an open party quarrel. Most of the army commanders and most of the province leaders are with the reform faction...
Watson's entire social life revolves around her three sisters, two brothers and their families. They all -- aside from a younger brother -- live in Clear Lake, as did Watson's mother until she moved to a nursing home this year. "When we get together, we talk about children, sales at the local stores and picking out floor tiles," says Ginger Quinn, a younger sister who is a captain with -- yes -- the Harris County sheriff's department. The entire family moved to Houston from Philadelphia in 1963 when Betsy's father John Herrmann became a project manager for NASA, working...
...contrast to such vibrancy, only a dozen graying worshipers attend the Silver Bluff Missionary Baptist Church in Beech Island, S.C., for a Wednesday night service. Founded in 1750, Silver Bluff is the oldest surviving black congregation in the U.S. Noting the total absence of younger Baptists at the service, head deacon Willie Sims utters an earnest prayer: "Father, come back to Silver Bluff one more time...
Bone, like many tissues, is constantly being broken down and rebuilt. In younger women this balance is thought to be maintained, at least in part, by the hormone estrogen. The sharply reduced production of estrogen after menopause, many researchers believe, upsets that balance, triggering a gradual loss of bone tissue. In about one-quarter of women, this deterioration eventually results in the porous, brittle bones characteristic of osteoporosis...