Word: boomeritis
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Core luxury millennials are more likely than their boomer counterparts to associate tech products with luxury. Boomers tend to associate travel, real estate and spa experiences with luxury...
...finish it for him.” WICHITA STATE 16, HARVARD 3 The Shockers had no trouble solving each of the three pitchers the Crimson sent out in the first game Saturday. Wichita State tagged sophomore Eric Eadington for six runs over four innings. “Boomer came out and, as I kind of did in my first start, he walked the joint,” Haviland said. “After the second and third inning he settled in and showed what kind of pitcher he can be for us.” Senior Max Warren and freshman...
...sorts. More than a few in the audience at the college gym could remember the first time he came to the city. It was 15 years before, almost to the day, and the new President was in town to sell his economic plan. The 46-year-old baby boomer had seemed the very embodiment of the freshness and change that the people of this downtrodden burg on the edge of Appalachia had been praying for. They were giddy when he jogged through Yoctangee Park with the mayor in 3?F (-16?C) weather and dropped by their new McDonald...
...nation faces a shortage of teaching talent. About 3.2 million people teach in U.S. public schools, but, according to projections by economist William Hussar at the National Center for Education Statistics, the nation will need to recruit an additional 2.8 million over the next eight years owing to baby-boomer retirement, growing student enrollment and staff turnover-which is especially rapid among new teachers. Finding and keeping high-quality teachers are key to America's competitiveness as a nation. Recent test results show that U.S. 10th-graders ranked just 17th in science among peers from 30 nations, while in math...
...weaknesses are intractable. They are wrapped up in her husband, who nearly ruined her campaign in the two weeks after Iowa but seems to have been relegated to the back of the bus in recent days. And they are wrapped up in her age. She is a baby boomer, of a generation that has been notably obnoxious and unsuccessful in the public arena. Perhaps the most dreadful baby-boom political legacy has been the overconsulted, fanatically tactical, poll-driven campaign - and Clinton has suffered whenever she has emphasized tactics over substance. Her lame attempts to "go negative" on Obama have...