Word: cohorts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what most tantalized Portlanders about the story, what put it on the front page, was what happened next. Since early in the year, a bunch of Grant kids--upper-middle-class ones mostly, Tom's cohort--had been planning a June trip to Mazatlan, Mexico. Word got out that Tom might go. Authorities talked about sending someone there, but decided against it--they're the local cops, after all, not the FBI. Did they even have jurisdiction...
They had better think of something. The big U.S. greeting-card companies are having a hard time tickling funny bones, warming hearts and sparking reflection. And they've got big demographic and cultural problems. Grandma's cohort, traditionally an easy audience and big card buyers, is dying off. Female boomers buy cards, but they're quite diverse in sensibility and ethnicity, so the one-size-fits-all approach isn't working. Boomer men, much like their fathers, avoid card racks for all but the most mandatory occasion, like birthdays and major relationship screwups. For Generations X and Y, paper cards...
...know that my father originally picked up the Chinese-junk meme during an almost identical epidemic at the same school 25 years earlier. The earlier virus was launched by the school matron. Long after the old matron's departure, I had reintroduced her meme to a new cohort of small boys...
...BIGGLESWORTH Dr. Evil's cohort named Cats magazine's "Cat of the Year." Socks no longer the big meow...
Meanwhile, Henderson's cohort, the Prince of India, enshrouded in silks and jewels, lounged in his rooms in Westmorely Court...