Word: condo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neighborhood near Copley Place the developers and the Yuppies are the gentrifiers, displacing the neighborhood's low-income established residents. When the City of Boston tries to push a rent control and condominium conversion control package through the city council, the real estate industry and the Yuppie condo owners stop it. Then Newsweek makes it all official by devoting an issue to the Year of the Yuppie. With such bad press, who would want to be a Yuppie...
...white-collar workers on their way up the corporate ladder without mentioning money directly. Money is implied. Sure, a Yuppie couple may be strapped for cash like the rest of us, but it's not because their salaries are low--it's because they're making payments on the condo, the late model Le Car and the slightly older Loyota, any number of credit card bills for woks and cursinarts and Marimekko sheets, membership fees at the Racquet and Tennis Club, and probably psychotherapy bills. Professional translates into making a good-salary and expected-to-make much more...
...condominium apartment on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Ferraro separately owns four lots next to their Fire Island retreat, and Zaccaro has three similar lots there. The bulk of the family wealth, however, is possessed by Zaccaro, whose holdings were estimated at $2.75 million. He owns another condo in St. Croix and one in New York's Greenwich Village, and has interests in six Lower Manhattan buildings. Apart from real estate, Ferraro lists more cash, bonds, personal property and similar assets ($235,000) than her husband ($180,000). She reports having no outstanding debts, while his liabilities...
...fastest-growing segment of the market is motor homes, whose prices start at about $19,000 for a stripped-down version with four bunks. "They're a condo on wheels for about what you'd pay for a Cadillac," says James Summers, head of the RV dealers' association. "That's a powerful selling point...
...achieving perfection through physical fitness and therapy. The Yuppie wakes to a digital alarm, sets down the dog food for the akita and jogs for the beta-endorphins before putting in a typically grueling day at the office, followed by an hour of therapy and meeting of the condo board. There is no time for sex, so for many Yuppies celibacy is a way of life. Yuppies eat tortellini, tuna sashimi and chefs salad, and favor restaurants with ceiling fans and dark green walls. No instant food ever passes Yuppie lips. The kitchen features scores of exotic appliances that cannot...