Word: generationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The question facing Soviet leaders is how to use this new toy and how to justify its cost. Its real utility, say experts, will be linked to the next- generation Soviet space station. In a tight economic environment, the cost of that project and of the Soviets' huge space effort...
The tragedy enlarged through the afternoon. First had come the awareness of the death of a man, a friend, a father and a husband. Then numbed nerves began to grapple with the fact that the Government too was brain-dead for the moment. There was the sense of a beast...
Perhaps Newsweek or Time will pick up on this and other surveys showing similar trends towards careers in academia and public-service, and suddenly proclaim that our generation has found its way. Having become repulsed by Ivan Boesky and all he represents, our generation would seem to be as socially...
To the extent that such "generational trends" towards certain careers do exist, it seems superficial to characterize them in such simplistic terms. Instead of viewing one generation of students as particularly concerned with America's role in the world and the next worrying about how it will make its student...
The networks expected--and even advanced the idea--that the Challenger explosion would become the national tragedy for a generation of Americans. People, they said, would always remember where they were when the heard the news, just as they did when they heard the news from Dallas. Stations dragged out...