Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...youngster with muscular dystrophy battles against "inhumane" treatment in nursing homes. Fred Savage (The Wonder Years) stars in this junior-varsity version of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest...
...course, I never believe television anymore. But way back when--oh, maybe two or three years ago--I was an impressionable youngster. Imagine my horror, sitting at a cozy table for two at Skewer's, trimmed nose hair and clean socks, my eyes and hers meeting for a short, beautiful moment...and an army of angry white flakes storming into my field of vision...
...pipe fitter from a working-class suburb of Paris, Tapie carried sacks of coal as a youngster to help pay the family's rent. He graduated from a second-rate engineering school rather than from one of the grandes ecoles that train France's business and bureaucratic elite. For a decade, he has been challenging the country's risk-averse Establishment; his specialty is reviving troubled companies in niche industries. Tapie once had a popular TV show on which he preached, "Create companies and earn big money through entrepreneurship." The program was unabashedly named Ambition, and his best- selling book...
Garrity, who presided over hundreds of judicial-bypass hearings, also believes that a youngster can be a good judge of whether parents can handle an unwanted pregnancy on top of their own difficulties or even whether the parents want to be involved. Of the teenagers who came before him, Garrity says, "To a person, they were scared to death, but they did know what they wanted." An alcoholic mother, a drug-addicted father, an absent or neglectful parent are some of the reasons teenagers cite for not going home for help. The fact that only half the minors in Minnesota...
...Soldiers are taught to obey unquestioningly. Children, less accustomed to independence than adults, are more tractable. And though a 13-year-old may not possess the strength of a soldier ten years his senior, this is the age of the AK-47 and the M-16, lightweight weapons a youngster can be taught to use as easily as an adult. Historian John Keegan calls the M-16 "the transistor radio of modern warfare" and argues that it has changed the nature of conflict by making fighting fit for the weak. Children may not make perfect soldiers, but they make perfectly...