Word: boomer
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...rich countries on spending for early childhood education, scientific research and development, and vocational skills. The government's top economic bureaucrats have consistently warned of the need to boost productivity and invest in education and skills so as to reduce the future financial burden on younger workers as the boomer generation retires. In the popular mind, Howard's government, which has delivered good economic results for a decade, does not rate highly on education. To the contrary, it is associated with large funding cuts to universities, higher fees for tertiary students, disputes with education unions and a kindly disposition toward...
...silver, but only a respectable married mother of eight or more is deemed worthy of gold. Each year, honors are bestowed on several thousand large families. If the concept seems anachronistic, that's because it is. There's a revolution sweeping through Europe, one more radical than any baby boomer on hallucinogenics could have dreamt up. The ideal of family life celebrated at the Elysées Palace and in town halls across France - of the nuclear family, that is, a man and woman, plus the offspring that they alone produced - is being toppled. In its place, Europeans are developing...
...public radio station cut short a job interview after the boss read his blog; he was later hired by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to "build buzz online." Trunk, who now blogs about workplace issues on Brazen Careerist, says telling young workers not to blog is like telling a baby boomer not to use the phone. "When major corporations try too hard to block the electronic community," she says, "Generation Y just leaves...
...financial-services firm Scottish Widows, who calculates that about 1 in 3 of Britain's 24 million households now have estates that would fall within the taxman's reach. Young herself admits she has an inheritance-tax "problem." Blame the explosion of house prices. Unlike their parents, European baby boomers tend to own their homes. As prices have soared over the past few years in almost every country except Germany, these homeowners have enjoyed big increases in the value of their total assets. But in many cases, the rise has pushed their net worth over the national minimum thresholds...
...Boomer Project, an online newsletter that tracks marketing strategies, is even more critical. It points out that boomers use the Web for research, not community, and that they rarely respond to age-specific messages. "Boomers track time with how they feel," it concludes. "Age is incidental...