Word: boomlets
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This is the twentysomething generation, those 48 million young Americans ages 18 through 29 who fall between the famous baby boomers and the boomlet of children the baby boomers are producing. Since today's young adults were born during a period when the U.S. birthrate decreased to half the level of its postwar peak, in the wake of the great baby boom, they are sometimes called the baby busters. By whatever name, so far they are an unsung generation, hardly recognized as a social force or even noticed much at all. "I envision ourselves as a lurking generation, waiting...
...star turn at the talks on German unification, then a photo op with Lech Walesa. Now there's a boomlet of stories about his presidential potential. He's able to combine delicate diplomacy with media massaging...