Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...generation of Americans in their 20s sometimes seems to have an image but no impact. They have plenty of cultural signifiers: rave parties, Lollapalooza, the underground Riot Grrrl feminist movement, that annoying guy in the Burger King ads that you just want to slap. But the connections seem to be missing; what does it all add up to? The search is on for those who would give real meaning to this Virtual Generation...
...Romantic, by Wendy Wasserstein, is an amusing look at the struggles two women in their late 20s face as they try to balance the demands of their careers, their parents, their boyfriends and their own independence...
...native of Durham, North Carolina, Gergen attended Yale University and Harvard Law School, and was a Democrat until his late 20s. He went to work as a speechwriter in Richard Nixon's White House in 1971, served as communications director to Gerald Ford and was what several Bush loyalists described as a "fair-weather friend" in 1980. As assistant to chief of staff James Baker in the Reagan White House, Gergen emerged as a skilled wordsmith and political strategist, helping design the 100-day plan for winning Reagan's revolutionary tax cuts. Gergen aggressively courted reporters and earned a reputation...
...fear of pregnancy any more compelling. "The kids feel," says Margaret Pruitt Clark, executive director of the Center for Population Options, "that the streets are so violent that they are either gonna be dead or in jail in their 20s, so why not have a kid." Most striking, she adds, is the calculation that young women in the inner cities are making. "They feel that if the number of men who will be available to them as the years go on will be less and less, the girls might as well have a child when they can, no matter...
...Japanese stock market that began in 1990, when the bloated Nikkei average plummeted from nearly 39,000 to less than 15,000 in 2 1/2 years. Then there are recollections of the Great Crash itself, which have become part of America's memory. "People start thinking of the '20s and '30s," says author and retired fund manager Peter Lynch, "and almost everyone seems to have had an Uncle Louie who lost everything and ended up selling pencils...