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...cash in on this rising value, prices would collapse, and the value would disappear. (By contrast, there aren't millions of onion owners counting on the value of their onions to keep going up year after year.) Economists predicted for years that something like this would happen as the boomer generation aged. Nobody believed them...
...appeal of cycling is most pronounced among the youngest baby boomers (ages 45 to 54), who are also tackling other vigorous leisure activities including hiking and running marathons. Such pursuits embody the active later lifestyle that much of the boomer generation has come to adopt, and which has been embraced as the ad media's new image of older Americans at leisure. Certainly, semi-seniors wake up the morning after a vigorous outing with more aches and pains than they had in their 20s, but the physical benefits exceed the cost. Regular exercise lowers cholesterol and blood pressure, keeps weight...
That will let IHG invest in growth, because travel is on the verge of an unprecedented, even unstoppable boom, says Cosslett. In the West, baby boomer retirees will be heading for the airport, not the rocking chair. In the developing world, more than a billion people have been freed to travel. Chinese tourists alone will make 100 million trips annually over the next decade. The global village is here, and any company parked on its intersections is going to do fine. But in view of the coming tourism onslaught, Cosslett says, "it's a good time to see the Sistine...
Eadington has made an immediate impact as well, compiling 23 strikeouts in 22 2/3 innings of work. “Boomer,” as he is known in the locker room, is 1-0 with a 2.78 ERA in five appearances...
...have to be a zombie savant to appreciate his joke. But Tarantino’s flick all but demands a genre aficionado to fully appreciate the references. “Grindhouse” is a testament to nostalgic perversion, a kind of tribute to rebellious baby-boomer arrested development. It nails every ridiculous convention and casual consequence of low budget production, from missing reels to badly scratched prints. But more than just being a very good reproduction, “Grindhouse” inadvertently taps into the universal appeal of blood, shock, sex, and fast cars that?...