Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...self-described young professionals chose Reagan (67% to 32%) as did self-described born-again Christians (69% to 31%). Like their younger siblings, those ages 25 to 34 are less likely to be bound by party identification. Indeed, the election showed that those born during and after the baby boom are very much up for grabs in every election...
...quickest description of the new people, Democratic and Republican alike, was "the baby-boom generation." When the veterans of the "good war" of 1941-45 came home, nature worked its seduction on them. The first command of nature was to find a mate, then to find a job, then a home, preferably in the suburbs, where they could raise children. The result of the mating urge was a biological explosion. From a national birth rate of 18.8 per thousand before the war, the youngsters pushed the number up to 26.6 per thousand in 1947. There were 2.4 million babies...
Listen to two young men of the baby-boom generation. "The revolution is already happening in our party," said a key campaign manager for Reagan-Bush. "Our new men are on the way. The Jack Kemps, Trent Letts, Newt Gingrichs, Vin Webers may not make it to the top in 1988. But we'll be in control. The Bob Doles, the Howard Bakers are out-through. Unless George Bush makes it, we'll elect the first President who wasn't in uniform in World War II." The second baby boomer, liberal Democratic Congressman Charles Schumer...
...small stage, that is, where someone has thoughtlessly left his boom box blaring in the background. "Love," the lyrics offer, "makes you go blind." Here, No Small Affair joins a host of recent movies-from Footloose to Flashdance to The Last American Virgin-that have tried to squeeze some plot in between blaring bids for Top 40 exposure...
...Having them is just like having a rifle: you point it, pull the trigger, and boom!" Crimson Coach Jape Shattuck said of his stars. "Not everyone is so aware of how huge the goal...