Word: cohort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this narrative -- beginning with pioneer hardships, moving through wars and economic booms and busts, and winding up in the pleasant suburban comforts of Frazier's own Ohio childhood. "I think my parents' generation had little conscious idea what it believed," Frazier writes, and as a result the next cohort, his, "sort of pitched and yawed all over the place, spiritually...
Trouble is, it often turns out that people have more children as their sense of well-being increases, particularly when technological advance or government largesse give them the idea that the old limits no longer apply. So argues Vanderbilt University anthropologist Virginia Abernethy and a growing cohort of critics. In Kenya, for instance, total fertility rose from 7.5 live births per woman in the mid-1950s to 8.12 in the 1960s and '70s even as infant mortality declined and incomes rose...
...while, the Haitian military has been tightening its hold on the country. Since February, international observers have chronicled a "systematic" attempt by the army and its paramilitary cohort, the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti, to terrorize Aristide supporters. In the 31 months since his overthrow, about 3,000 are said to have been killed; over the past three months, the observers documented 157 suspicious deaths and 16 abductions as well as illegal detentions at secret torture centers. In Gonaives alone, the Catholic Church's Peace and Justice Commission reported 7,300 arbitrary arrests last year. Bribes...
Defining a generation is difficult, for sure. To start with, Cohen must pick an age cohort to write about. He chooses the more than 40 million individuals between the ages of 18 and 29, without explaining why he chooses these ages as his parameters. Next, he admits (probably accurately), in his introduction, "there is no single word or idea that can accurately capture 40 million individuals...
...baby boomers' parents, those members of the World War II cohort now in the twilight of their lives, are the wealthiest generation in American history. Blessed by the real estate boom of the 1970s and '80s, the stock- market surge of the '80s and lucrative pensions, Social Security payments and a high savings rate, older Americans as a group have amassed a nest egg that New York University economist Edward Wolff values at $5.3 trillion -- an average of $258,000 for each household headed by a person over 64. Those assets mean an unprecedented windfall for many otherwise struggling younger...