Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country is becoming unstuck," insists Arnold Trebach, director of the Institute on Drugs, Crime and Justice at American University in Washington. "This is a very serious problem, but it is a problem that has leveled off." Americans, particularly younger ones, are in fact learning to just say no. Reports Charles Schuster, the director of the National Institute on Drug and Alcohol Abuse: "The trend since 1979 is that people are backing off. In almost all classes of drugs, abuse among younger people has diminished. When you get that kind of change in attitude on the part of youth...
...Sciences (1872) and the business school (1908). He also presided over the establishment of a college for women, Radcliffe (1894), originally known mainly as "the Annex." He recruited a brilliant faculty, not only notable lecturers like Ralph Waldo Emerson (on philosophy) and William Dean Howells (Italian literature), but younger teachers like Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William James and George Santayana. (They had a sense of their own value too. Said Shakespeare Scholar George Lyman Kittredge, after falling off his dais: "At last, I find myself on the level of my audience...
...smart -- pretty stable, and altogether satisfactory. Through work-study programs, loans and scholarships, they both acquired a fairly good basic education. One teaches, the other is a health educator with our local health department. Both have apparently solid and satisfactory marriages. The older one has two little girls, the younger has a new little daughter...
Commenting on the interpretation, Rawls' younger collegue Scanlon said, "It's quite a question whether a moral argument can be carried out without reference to values...
...decent exchange, no name-calling," the younger Saltonstall remembers...