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...Raymond, a mechanical engineer from M.I.T. and the founder of Benthos in North Falmouth, the world's leading maker of oceanographic equipment, suggests that Massachusetts has an equation for success. "There's a mother lode of talent in this state," says Raymond. "Combine that with the liberal ethic and you have a society that stimulates creativity." That is precisely what Governor Dukakis wants to accomplish: to make the state work "so that the extraordinary becomes a permanent fixture." For a state that has traditionally made the extraordinary ordinary, that should not be so hard a task. -- By Lance Morrow. Reported...
...generation provided a sense of solidarity and power, it ultimately proved to be the Baby Boomers' bane. There were simply too many of them to maintain in the style to which millions became accustomed as affluent children of the '50s and '60s. Egalitarianism might have been the avowed ethic of their youth, but competition was, and still is, the harsh reality. Many bravely refuse to admit it, yet the fact is that many Baby Boomers do not live as well as their parents, and may never...
Sacrifice and lowered expectations do not come naturally to Baby Boomers. "You deserve a break today," proclaimed a famous McDonald's commercial, and the Baby Boomers believed it. The Depression-era work-and-scrimp ethic that drove their parents was not passed along. Inflation is at least partly to blame, says MONEY Managing Editor Landon Jones, author of Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan). Spiraling costs made savings seem futile and fostered a sensibility of buy now, pay later...
Heavily recruited out of high school, the Bloomington, Minn. native has always played sports with a work ethic largely instilled by his parents...
Since then, Ohno has been known for the same work ethic he showed in high school...