Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...generation of the party will die. A generation of younger leaders will emerge, and they will be better on average. I say on average because some individual leaders in the new generation could even be worse than those...
Though help never came, Kuwaiti troops put up small pockets of resistance. At the palace, the country's symbolic heart, the Kuwaitis held their own through a two-hour artillery barrage. During the battle, the Emir's younger brother Fahd was killed. The Iraqi force assigned to secure the oil rigs off Kuwait's shores saw the most action. Kuwaiti troops and missile boats managed to sink and burn an unknown number of Iraqi landing craft and escort ships. By early afternoon, however, nearly all Kuwait's guns had been silenced. In all, it is estimated that 200 Kuwaitis were...
...which represents about 12% of sales, Dumas has broadened the company's designs beyond its trademark saddlery patterns. But his refusal to give celebrity billing to individual designers has made for mixed results. Nonetheless, the back-to-basics fashion trend, which favors natural fibers and hides, is successfully attracting younger customers...
...that quoted Harvard insiders as saying Rosovsky was the most likely successor. Some said the popular professor and former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences would serve for a few years during Harvard's planned $2 billion fund drive, then step down to be replaced by someone younger...
Several professors and administrators said yesterday that Rosovsky's presence as a possible candidate threatened to hinder the search process by making many at Harvard ignore other potential candidates. They said his public announcement clears the way for others, particularly younger and less well-known contenders, to enter the field...