Word: boomerism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battle it out in a Minnesota blizzard). Uniforms get dirtier, players get tired, and as the game unfolds, the machine seems to be...conniving against you. Try more than two play-action passes, and your quarterback gets sacked. It's a dream of a machine, even for a baby boomer like...
...schooling, employment and sexual development for the sake of uniformity. Get ready for an even greater impact of the high school generation, writes Hine. "In the first decade of the 21st century, America can anticipate the largest generation of teenagers in its history, one even larger than the baby-boomer generation that entered its teens four decades...
...redemption camp--those who ran off with Clinton in 1992, lived to regret it and want to make amends. Both have placed their hopes in the son, and last week they were left shaking their head. As a longtime adviser put it, "Why replace one self-indulgent baby boomer with another, who's trading on his daddy's famous name...
...thought George W. Bush had the right to refuse to answer questions about his long-past personal behavior, including inquiries about whether he ever used cocaine, the cheers went up. "Right, just leave him alone. Who cares what he did when he was young?" Or, from the Governor's boomer cohort: "Who didn't try drugs back then...
...that the striving impulse would sooner or later reshape kids' sports. But the trend has been abetted by other, less predictable changes in American life: the ascendancy of the automobile, the shrinking of open spaces, the ubiquity of the two-earner family and the pervasive fear of crime. Baby-boomer parents may look back wistfully at their own childhood, when playing sports was a matter of heading to the corner sandlot or the neighborhood park after school for a pick-up game. But the sandlot's been filled in by a four-bedroom Cape Cod with a two-story atrium...