Quite the opposite: person after person in their fifties and sixties talked of being in the prime of life, about their enthusiasm for hard work, new job skills, new opportunities.
In the prime of his career in 2001, Ludden founded First Descents, a nonprofit that provides free outdoor adventures for adults ages 18 to 39 battling the disease.
Ms Steenkamp, who had been in the prime of her life, was well known in social circles and had graced the covers of a number including men's magazine FHM - but most South Africans would have known her simply as Mr Pistorius's girlfriend.
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Imagine yourself in the prime of your life and being thrust into something of which life and death hanged in the balance.
Both are in the prime of their careers, one as leader of the world's fastest-growing economy in the last decade, the other as head of the biggest financial hedge fund in the world.
The disease could kill up to a third of the population, hitting hardest those in the prime of their productive years and leaving millions of orphans destitute.
In the prime of their working lives they wanted to conquer the world with their products.
But a commercial aircraft that is 15 years old is still in its prime of life.
It can strike in the prime of life and is one of the few cancers whose incidence is exploding, for unclear reasons.
Cano is 30 years old, in the prime of his career, and the Yankees will go as far as he can take them.
Disease investigators also are concerned by the fact that the outbreak has killed people in the prime of their lives, when they should have peak resistance.
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He spoke of how her family described her in victim impact statements as full of life and without a bigoted bone in her body, a girl who had been gunned down in the prime of her life.
"I, Julia Eileen Gillard, do solemnly and sincerely affirm and declare that I will loyally serve the Commonwealth of Australia in the office of prime minister, " she said in the ceremony in the Australian capital, Canberra.
And just as this generation of pitchers grew up hooked on velocity, hitters in their prime today came of age in the homer-happy steroid era.
The relationship was tested as they negotiated a second deal, to bid for the redevelopment of some residential properties in a prime district of south Mumbai.
Jordan was a breathtakingly good and ruthless basketball player, without peer or weakness in his prime, in possession of the statistics and championship rings to make his case.
They continue, for example, to have considerable exposure to European banks, with, as of May 31, 2012, approximately 30% of prime fund assets invested in debt issued by banks based in Europe generally and approximately 14% of prime fund assets invested in debt issued by banks located in the Eurozone.
After his stint as prime minister from 1996 to 1999, he served in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, then Likud Party leader, but resigned in 2005, saying he disagreed with Sharon's plan to remove Israeli troops and settlements from Gaza.
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Perhaps most important to his credentials for the presidency was his promotion to the post of first deputy prime minister in charge of national projects.
Mr. Zulfikar had been due to appear Friday morning at the High Court in Rawalpindi, a garrison town bordering Islamabad, for a hearing in Mr. Musharraf's trial on charges of involvement in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Vinsetta was situated in a prime location in the heyday of cruising and drag racing.
When the moment comes to choose a permanent successor to Mr Lazarenko, Mr Kuchma may prefer Sergei Tigipko, a 37-year-old banker who in April was made a deputy prime minister in charge of economic reform.
So tight is his relationship with Industry that when he proposed developing the remaining empty parcel of 425 prime acres in the summer of 1999, the city quietly and without seeking competing bids ditched plans to sell off the area piece by piece and gave the land to Roski's Majestic, gratis.
In 1966, John Vorster was sworn in as prime minister of South Africa after the assassination of his predecessor, Hendrik Verwoerd.
Chelsea's owner, Chelsea Village, is building a hotel, flats and offices on its stadium site in a prime area of west London.
In a prime example of Beckham's enduring quality with the ball at his feet, his cross was delivered perfectly for Rooney to rise and direct his header beyond Senecky.
Opposition politicians have called for a vote of no-confidence next week in the government of Prime Minister Petr Necas, an ally of Mr. Klaus who approved the pardon decree.
Far from bending to his will, a large majority of Israelis perceives Obama as a hostile force and has rallied in support of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu against the administration.
Even in Ethiopia, one of the prime recipients of land-based foreign direct investment in Africa, the law does not allow private ownership of the land, which belongs to the State.
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