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...term boomerang children used to refer to young adults moving back in with their parents, but the recession is forcing people in their 30s and 40s and older - often with a spouse and kids in tow - to bunk in with the 'rents until they regain their financial footing. Since the recession began in December 2007, the U.S. has lost 3.6 million jobs. An AARP survey released in May found that more than a third of retirees have had to help a child pay bills in the past year. And the number of multigenerational households has increased from 5 million...
...less privileged toil, is also alive in the city. One can still hear the sound of mahjong tiles under a creaky ceiling fan, slurp down a steaming mug of milky tea and catch sight of a skeletal old man hoisting crates onto a waiting ship. Unlike the late '30s, when poor immigrants remained huddled around the city's port, these sights and smells are scattered across Singapore in thousands of hawker centers, provision shops, public-housing estates and factories...
...America is in a regenerative mood. It shows a willingness to take a hard look at some of its accepted truths, whether it's the role of big business at the beginning of the 20th century or isolationism after World War I. You saw it with FDR in the 30s, and with Kennedy and with Reagan. I'm intrigued by the possibility that we may be embarking on another such era. It will be fascinating to see how this President puts his stamp not only on the next four or eight years, but potentially on the next generation or more...
...decades, the mantra about Wall Street has gone from "Greed is good" to "Banks are bad." The winds of a new Depression demand that that salutary trend of the movie '30s be revived. Oliver Stone, get to work. In the meantime, with brilliant bloody timing, here comes The International, a spy thriller with a theme worth mulling: that moneymen are the root of all evil...
...INSERT HIGH FIVE]/“You are surprisingly attractive. I will politely yield”.)If the TF angrily demands you sit down, remark, “TF equals teaching fellow? More like (tip-top friend/total fellator/titanic fellator/toothless fellator/tempestuous frigate/depressed and purposeless man in his early 30s).”Your TF will undoubtedly ask you to write your name on a 3x5 index card, but spice it up by (writing your name backwards and then directing him to a mirror/drawing a treasure map of the campus revealing the location where you hid the REAL 3x5 index card/writing...