Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will have to put your pre-frosh to sleep. This decision will almost certainly make you the most unpopular person in your blocking group. Explain to the more mature blockmates that your pre-frosh is in a lot of pain and that it will be for the best. Younger ones may have to be told that the pre-frosh is "going away" and "will be back in September" until they are ready to hear the truth...
...keep score religiously, because it reminds me of when I was younger and kept score for my little brother's team," she said...
...tradition, helping breathe life into the worlds of faith and action alike. Today, it is led by Pope John Paul II, whose most recent encyclical, "Fides ed Ratio" (faith and reason), speaks clearly to the rapidly accelerating pace of information transfer and change that "can leave especially the younger generation, to whom the future belongs and on whom it depends, with a sense that they have no valid points of reference." Where is the reason, the rationale upon which the rock of the Church can rest in our skeptical world? Though prayer is highly effective, for some of us, pilgrimages...
...values that support the unions--and the rigid attitudes of white-collar workers--are changing, even more for the younger generation. When former construction boss Chung lost his job and his status, he and his wife were worried that they would be scorned by their three children. The kids surprised them. The Chungs' teenage son helps his father with deliveries. When Mrs. Chung fretted about their drop in status, the teenager reminded his mother of a story she told him as a child about how the local cleaning man was not born a cleaning man but was just playing...
...findings are particularly alarming because they arrived the same week as the results of a survey showing that American children seem to be taking up cigarettes at ever younger ages. The National Parents' Resource Institute for Drug Education, based in Atlanta, reported that 4% of fourth-graders, 7% of fifth-graders and nearly 15% of sixth-graders had already smoked. Add to this the more than 3 million teenagers with the habit, and you have a major health problem...