Word: boomeritis
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...roofs of houses." This is a familiar image to members of Bush's, and my own, baby-boom generation-incendiary idealism, soldiers torching straw huts with Zippo lighters in Vietnam, "destroying a village in order to save it." Bush, in the end, is a classic boomer. His was a speech that could only have been delivered by a member of our exorbitantly messianic generation. Our rhetoric has always been the rhetoric of freedom, framed by Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, which marshaled the mighty word as frequently as Bush did and was delivered, appropriately...
Experts attribute the rise to keen competition for a limited supply of external candidates to fulfill the increasingly complex post of president. The retirement of baby-boomer administrators is constraining the candidate pool for top university posts...
...Americans (those with incomes of $100,000 or higher) would rather spend on experiential luxuries--restaurants, travel and entertainment--than on gadgets and goods. Pam Danziger, president of Unity Marketing, which conducted the survey, says the rise in experiential luxury is directly proportional to the wealth of the baby-boomer generation, which will be profoundly influential on the economy through...
...many other areas, boomers' affluence and good health have enabled them to indulge their tastes for activities once seen as the turf of the young. Overwhelmingly, men still buy the motorcycles, but increasingly, boomer wives are hopping on the back or buying their own. And they're having a say in the purchase...
Motorcycle Romance Boomer couples are hitting the open road and finding a new sense of emotional and physical closeness with their partners...