Word: agee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suddenly become unspeakably wealthy. Even then, there must be something disorienting about having to answer, when an old friend asks how little Ethan is getting along in his first job, "Well, he doesn't tell us much--you know how boys that age are--but the last issue of Forbes said he's worth $2 billion...
...know a number of people in their 20s and 30s who are not multimillionaires. I know people that age who have no stock options whatsoever. Some of them, in fact, have no stock. Given all we read about 28-year-old Internet executives whose holdings were cut by recent stock dips to only about $40 million, or investment bankers who now feel they have a nest egg large enough to allow them to ease into retirement at 27, or 30-year-old writers who wandered onto the staff of the right sitcom while waiting for the first novel to jell...
...your own kid, there is a temptation for more mature citizens to view great wealth at an early age as contrary to the laws of nature. Did God really mean for someone to have a private jet and a flat abdomen at the same time? Isn't one supposed to compensate for the absence of the other? On a related subject, how old should a trophy wife be if the fabulously successful businessman who feels the need of a trophy is only 27 years old himself...
...case of the chemicals manufacturers, it will be when they can effectively begin selling their products over the Internet, not just to other chemical companies but to building-supply companies, automotive companies and agricultural companies. When those business webs are formed, B2B on the Net will have come of age...
...LIFE SPLITS Men and women who divorce in middle age go their separate ways in more ways than one. According to a recent study, women become more assertive, gregarious and optimistic, while men get demoralized and depressed. Study co-author Paul Costa cautions that more research is needed to explain why. Who divorced whom and who gets what may be factors, says Costa, but the phenomenon may be unique to this generation of first-wave baby boomers...