Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fusing it all to an lo-fi punk philosophy, Beck wandered into the limelight as the ultimate slacker geek, announcing his own cheerful uselessness. His clueless sound had a certain novelty appeal, but he seemed less like a suave rock star than like a rock star's whiny younger brother, whose upstart nonsense was original, but couldn't be taken too seriously...
...older daughter will be a skyscraper," Preble said, "and the younger daughter is Cinderella...
What Strong's book doesn't explain is why kids who haven't been sexually or physically abused during their childhood resort to cutting. On Dateline NBC, the subject had suffered her parents' painful divorce in early childhood, which, with the birth of a physically and mentally disabled younger brother, was enough to produce self-injury later in life...
...also living longer and thus extending the family as well. By the year 2005 there will be an estimated 80 million to 90 million grandparents in the U.S. Only those codgers won't be sitting in rocking chairs, talking about the old days. Boomer grandparents are likely to be "younger, healthier, wealthier and better educated," say Kathryn and Allan Zullo, the husband-wife authors of The Nanas and the Papas: A Boomers' Guide to Grandparenting (Andrews McMeel). The Zullos give grandparents advice about keeping up with far-flung grandchildren, through e-mail and family websites, as well as traditional tips...
...this way: If a gay organization doesn't encourage Republicans who stick their neck out, why should they bother? And if H.R.C. backs a supportive Republican, wouldn't that foster a new generation of G.O.P. leaders who would respond to the more moderate politics of the G.O.P.'s growing younger and suburban base? "That party is at war with itself, and its best decision makers are not at the top," says Birch. "Trent Lott is making horrible mistakes...