Word: youthe
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...most people are not so sympathetic. Instead of feeling sorry for the athletes, the trend now is to condemn them because--the argument goes--their performances suffer and athletes shirk their responsibility as role models for America's youth...
Instead of admitting to his little outburst of normality, Reagan and his staff sought to maintain his superhuman status. Just as he tries to fool the country with fountain-of-youth hair color and make-up, the 75-year-old chief set out to snow the public by denying he had ever uttered the phrase...
...explictly condoned the practice, nevertheless lets the individual states set their minimum ages. In the 35 states which permit capital punishment, six have set the minimum at 18, 15 have set minimums ranging from 10 to 17 years, 11 permit executions at all ages while requiring judges to consider youth a mitigating factor, and three (Delaware, Oklahoma, and South Dakota) have no minimums whatsoever...
...start old and get younger?" keens Iona (Annie Potts), a perky eccentric in her 30s who has never discarded the totems of a happily trashy youth: prom dress, beehive hairdo and the Association crooning Cherish. But there is enough sweet irony in her voice to suggest that she has looked into the face of her teenage pal Andie (Molly Ringwald) and seen just why the Fountain of Youth is laced with citric acid. Teenhood is the pits. Faces are constantly aflush with anger, ardor, embarrassment. Anguish over dates and grades streaks the first application of mascara. Clique rivalries make...
...million in U.S. aid over the past two years, the before-and-after picture of Grenada is pretty much the same. The problems that beset the island under Marxist rule persist: high unemployment, minimal foreign investment, primitive communications and electricity systems. Unemployment is 30%, and twice that among youth. Almost 2 1/2 years after the U.S. promised to stimulate foreign investment in the island through tax credits, only two such efforts have been made: a business selling nutmeg kits that failed and a factory making wooden toys that closed after four months. Its owner was sentenced to two years...