Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fourth-graders were pressured by peers to drink. "Kids are making decisions about alcohol and drugs when they are 12 to 14, whereas in the preceding generation they made those decisions at ages 16 to 18," says Lee Dogoloff, executive director of the American Council for Drug Education. "The younger a person starts drinking, the more likely he is to develop problems later in life...
...were hoping to have the best match possible," Piltch said, "It was a good opportunity for our younger players to get some experience under their belts...
...Lowell group were the poetic heirs of the long-lived constellation of T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens and Robert Frost. Meyers, biographer of Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Mansfield and other troubled writers, persuasively argues that the younger men approached their predecessors "in depth of genius and artistic achievement" but "surpassed them in the extremity of pain." Meyers' fever chart begins with blighted childhoods: each man lost his father young. Each was severely disturbed, opening his psychic wounds and bleeding into confessional verse. But they all went a step beyond, steeping in self- pity, some sabotaging their marriages with meaningless affairs, others sniping...
...house with her collections of newspapers and tin cans, carries crackers around in case she runs into a woodland sprite, gets a kick out of it when the house is flooded, and is obviously an unfit stepparent. The outraged townsfolk, with their passion for convention, soon influence Lucille, the younger, staider of the girls. Ruth is made of sterner, that is dreamier, driftier stuff. Like Sylvie. Like Bill Forsyth. Not that he would ever pass judgment on the choices the women ultimately make. Or ask for an explanation. All he proposes is that if you lean in close to some...
...father was one of Sacramento's most colorful lobbyists, a glad-handing, shoulder-rubbing wheeler-dealer. Upon his father's death in 1963, Kennedy left a lucrative San Francisco practice and returned to Sacramento to straighten out affairs and eventually take over the practice. Though the younger Kennedy kept clients like Schenley liquor distillers and the state's association of opticians, he mainly provided legal advice and drafted legislation. In testifying before the legislature on constitutional issues, Kennedy came to the attention of California Governor Ronald Reagan and his executive assistant Ed Meese. In 1973 they asked him to write...