Word: boomerism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, I was going to have to change. Earlier this month in Michigan, Timothy Boomer was convicted under an 1897 statute for swearing very loudly--as many as 70 times--in hearing distance of small children, after he fell out of his canoe. Also, last week a Michigan court reinstated charges against a guy named Paul Hancock for cursing at his neighbor, Sharon Carnal. If I were Jay Leno, I'd make a joke about their last names...
CONVICTED. TIMOTHY BOOMER, 25, of violating Michigan's 1897 anti-swearing law. In a case that drew much attention, a jury in rural Arenac County found Boomer guilty of repeatedly using "the F word" within earshot of children after his canoe overturned in a river. He faces 90 days in jail. The ACLU, which calls the law unconstitutional, has vowed an appeal...
...wedlock births, his hedonism-without-tears philosophy makes him look like Austin Powers with better teeth. Timothy Leary preached the liberating power of psychedelic drugs, but aside from Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, the legacy of LSD seems to be a lot of boring baby-boomer anecdotes and some black-light posters in the attic. But who knows: Is Leary's time past, or is it yet to come? The great caveat of historians is "It's too soon to tell...
...possible to indicate orders of magnitude. Currently there are a bit more than three taxpaying workers supporting one retiree. By the 2030s, when the tidal wave of baby-boomer retirements crests, there will be only two. Somewhere around 2014, the system is expected to be paying out more in benefits than it collects in taxes, forcing Social Security to start cashing in the Treasury bonds in its trust fund, whose assets are now more than $760 billion. By 2034, that too will be gone, and taxes will cover only an estimated 71% of annual pensions...
Publishers are careful to cater to baby-boomer vanity. Nowhere is there a suggestion that large-print books are connected with getting older. Instead, publishers emphasize that people are reading large-print publications on treadmills, or relaxing with them after a long day on the computer, or using them to read in bed without their glasses. But with the graying of the baby boomers, large-print books are likely to become a mainstream, front-of-the-store--and no longer secret--habit...