Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same time, it's not hard to see why the younger Kennedys would have second thoughts about pursuing public office, and not only because Jack and Bobby were assassinated. For one thing, when Jack, Bobby and Ted were growing up in the 1930s and '40s, the press wasn't watching their every move. But the Kennedy cousins have suffered the attention of the media from the moment they were old enough to cut a high school class or fail a bar exam. It's enough to make any sane person wary of doing anything that would bring the media further...
...many ways he embodied a new, entrepreneurial kind of Kennedy philanthropy. It doesn't diminish the Shrivers' Special Olympics or Jacqueline Onassis' fund raising for Grand Central Terminal to note that John practiced a hands-on generosity that reflects a younger generation of givers, folks impressed more by proved outcomes than by black-tie benefits...
...much of the younger Bush's rhetoric about compassionate conservatism is taken directly from his father's. In 1988, more than a decade before W. made "prosperity with a purpose" a presidential campaign slogan, then Vice President Bush was saying that "prosperity with a purpose means giving back to the country that has given you so much." The difference is that the elder Bush's compassion for the less fortunate came across as noblesse oblige, while the younger Bush has made it the emotional core of his campaign...
...Connerly's plan is the fact that Florida's Governor, Jeb Bush, happens to be the younger brother of Republican presidential front runner George W. Bush. If organizers get the signatures they need, the referendum will be on the ballot in November 2000--when George W.'s name could be there as the Republican choice for President. "What better place than the backyard of the prospective nominee--his brother's state?" asks Connerly. "It's guaranteed to catapult the issue...
...Bush the Younger has yet to learn the ways of running a campaign--and yet, long-time political journalists tell me that his campaign is better run than them all. First, they note, Bush, has a relatively small staff. He's known to switch speech topics at the last minute, change his schedule, and cancel events because he's too tired...