Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Baby Boom Bust...
Having been born in 1947,1 am part of America's great postwar baby boom described in "Going After the Mightiest Market" [Sept. 14]. The sad aftermath is that in 30 or 40 years many of these 76 million "baby boomers" will be residents in overcrowded nursing homes. The Social Security fund, to which we have contributed, will be depleted. What now appears as the rosy future for the consumer can change to thorns a few years down the road...
...falling star for a kidnapper. Dade County Medical Examiner Joe Davis last month denounced Marielito murderers on a local TV show: "These guys are not even human. They're animals. Not even animals. That's an insult to the animal kingdom." The murder boom has filled existing morgue space; Davis rented a refrigerated hamburger van to accommodate the overflow...
...guns will boom and retrievers quiver come opening day, and the air will be wild with chilled shot and chillier hunters. But whether the hunters will get their usual warm welcome when they stumble home with the day's bag (up to ten ducks and up to six geese per gunner) remains to be seen. After all the fuss, it may be a rare hostess who urges upon a guest a second helping of goose. -By Claudia Wallis...
...most basic aspirations. It was merely a hope then, not a sure thing. But some time during the long suburban idyll of the postwar years, the idea of owning a house came to harden into a kind of entitlement, a right, an inevitability. The baby-boom children of the broad American middle class-especially seduced by the illusion. Until now, through many headlong cultural confusions, they carried with them a barely conscious expectation, a sort of buried genetic code. When they chose to do so, when the babies started arriving, they could transform themselves into Ozzie and Harriet and find...