Word: younger
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...revived it by disagreeing with them both. Then while Foot was striving to dispel the notion that he was a tired and ineffective leader, his wife, Feminist Writer Jill Craigie, was quoted as saying that her husband would step down soon after the election to make way for a younger man. Worse yet, the Labor leader did not flatly contradict the report...
...Since Italy's first steps toward democracy, each government has relied on countless small parties to stay in power. More recently, the situation has been worsened by outdated political thinking that does not match the needs of today's younger electorate, which demands labor reform and efficient economic policies. As a result, most Italians no longer trust members of the old political guard, whose main interest has been to pass laws to increase their already conspicuous benefits. When elections approach, they try to shift blame for mishandling the political agenda away from themselves, amid endless cases of corruption, immoral behavior...
...perhaps that's what Italy and its ever-changing ruling political class deserve. Since Italy's first steps toward democracy, each government has relied on countless small parties. More recently, the situation has been worsened by outdated political thinking that does not match the needs of today's younger electorate, which demands labor reform and efficient economic policies. As a result, most Italians no longer trust members of the old political guard, whose main interest has been to pass laws to increase their already conspicuous benefits. When elections approach, they try to shift blame for mishandling the political agenda away...
...have diplomatic ties, and no matter how hard Peer battles on the Doha hard courts, or how many Arab fans she wins over, she doesn't expect to ease hostilities overnight. "I'm here to play tennis," she says. "But if this opens up a window for the younger generation, with Arabs and Israelis working together for peace, I'd be happy." If Peer is treated well in Qatar, other top Israeli players may apply to compete in Dubai's prestigious championship, which follows Doha...
...kids with beards--as Billy Wilder called them--are graybeards, and a younger generation is getting its turn. Paul Thomas Anderson, writer-director of the critics' darling There Will Be Blood, is 37. Jason Reitman, whose Juno is the only $100 million box-office hit of the five Best Picture finalists, is just 30. That leaves those two sassy outsiders--Joel Coen, 53, and his brother Ethan, 50--in the mainstream, though their entry, No Country for Old Men, carries the double-whammy genre curse of being a kind of western-horror movie. Can it beat out Anderson's parched...