Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children are better off today than they were in previous decades. They are healthier, their families have a higher income, the level of their mother's education (the most important determinant of a child's intelligence) has risen. But 1 out of every 10 children three years old and younger lives in "extreme poverty"--at or below 50% of the federal poverty level. And the well-being of many others is threatened by such social changes as the rise of single-parent households, the uneven quality of day care, the decline of communities and, some would argue, the push...
...often church, where proprieties are observed and secrets have a charge. Richard and Sarah MacEwan are a sweet-natured, guilt-edged couple held together by custom, affection and a devotion as much to the settled lives they've created over 30 years as to each other. But when his younger brother dies, Richard finds among his unmarried sibling's papers an intimate letter from Sarah and is suddenly propelled beyond the limit of what he knows and what he wants to know. When, further, the couple's divorced daughter Anna falls into the arms of a married man, all four...
...obstacles to further developing activism is the intractability with which antique civil rights leaders try to maintain their status in a movement that no longer exists," Davis said. "Among the younger generation there's also a reverence for those figures which I try to de-mystify...
...vigorous man who loved life. Up until a few years ago, he walked a few miles each day, and I remember playing catch with him when I was younger," his grandson said. "He was a great influence on my life, including my decision to come to Harvard...
Unlike Sutton, Pollak, a former editor for the Nation, met Dr. B. The writer's younger brother Stephen spent five years at the Orthogenic School before his accidental death in 1948. Meeting some 20 years later, Bettelheim loftily informed Pollak that his father had been an ineffective "schlemiel," that his Medea-like mother was wholly to blame for Stephen's emotional ills and, quite falsely, that the brother had committed suicide. No wonder Pollak left that encounter mentally comparing Bettelheim to "the evil Doctor Sivana, arch-nemesis of Captain Marvel...