age-old

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The problem isn’t pacifism, but young people posing a new variation on the age-old question: “What is in it for me?”

From The Wall Street Journal

An age-old problem for the stock market is that when things are really good in a certain business, it invites competition.

From Barron's

Characterized as “myths,” for example, were the age-old beliefs that Native Americans mistook the conquistadors for gods, and that a mere handful of Spaniards toppled great empires with ease.

From The Wall Street Journal

But changing age-old traditions is not just for the younger generation - Tim Hartley, 65, from Cardiff, left the craziness of the kitchen behind four years ago for his local curry house.

From BBC

Taken together, the twin messages of these two books answer that age-old question with the age-old feminist slogan: “The personal is political.”

From Los Angeles Times