Word: boom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Medwed, the business boom has hurt the Square economically as well as socially. "The New England economy right now is in a downturn and the people who favor development are using this as an excuse to turn down the controls," he says. "The things we liked about Harvard Square have been hurt by this development...
...Industries, an energy- equipment company that has totted up $1.5 billion worth of new orders this year, largely from Asia and Latin America. But merchandise exports amount to just 7% of American GNP and can scarcely drag the economy out of the doldrums single-handedly. Moreover, the manufacturing boom could quickly go bust if nervous domestic consumers don't start opening their wallets soon...
Legislative what? What Coupland really means to describe is the following phenomenon: To force a body of people to have memories they do not actually possess. He believes the post-baby boom generation (better known as the twentysomething generation or Generation X) has become fed up with the mysticism of--and nostalgia for--the 1960s...
Throughout the book, Coupland creates a vocabulary for this generation without a voice. For example, members of the twentysomething generation occasionally feel a touch of "boomer envy"--envy of material wealth and long-range material security accrued by the baby boom generation. Although they're envious of baby boomers' successes, Generation Xers refuse to put up with the hippie nostalgia of their elders...
...post-Civil War boom, Mark Twain's child-man reveals his real name. Arrested in a stock swindle, the rising robber baron escapes from jail with the aid of Jim, nonstop talker and former slave, who has shrewdly invested in ^ Thomas Edison's recording machine and become the founding grandfather...