Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chinese people have a stronger dream to be successful," says Zhong, sitting in a Nanjing tea shop near the university at which he is studying. He lights a cigarette from the butt he has finished and looks around at the students at the other tables. Most are 10 years younger, from more privileged backgrounds. When Zhong was their age, in the late 1980s, there was no way a peasant's son from rural China could have contemplated hopping between jobs, getting an education and applying for a job with "Goldman Sachs or Citicorp," as Zhong hopes to do. Today, with...
...food (the famines caused by Mao's Great Leap Forward killed more than 20 million). When we started to study, the Cultural Revolution happened, so we were sent to the countryside and stopped learning. Now as we start to make some money, there are all these layoffs. The younger generation will have it much better...
...slowly. As a young woman, "a booze-sucking, pill-popping, dope-slamming druggie," she turned 18 in jail, jugged on a possession charge. She seems not to have known Grand-Papa Ernest well (and would say, no, no, not that Hemingway family, not me), though later she adored his younger brother, her great-uncle Leicester, and spent memorable days deep-sea fishing with...
...conservative positions, he was increasingly ostracized by the conservative monster he had helped create. When he argued for gay rights, abortion rights and a firm separation of church and state, Goldwater's small-minded ideological progeny would shake their hands, allude to Barry's failing health and his younger, more liberal wife. As he related to a National Review editor, "I haven't been invited to speak at the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Committee) for maybe 15 years? You'd think I was on the other side...
While our younger brothers and sisters are lounging by the pool or even off at investment camp, Japanese high schoolers are still in school--and will be until July 20, when they receive a 40-day recess, their longest of the year. Students, dressed in uniforms, often travel to school seven days a week, preparing for the ultimate test of adolescence: university entrance examinations. While President Clinton has proposed making the "13th and 14th years of education as universal as high school" in America, Japanese students are fighting their way to a college education--enrolling in "crammer colleges" if necessary...