Word: millennium
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...viewers and magazines for readers: hardly a sliver of society is exempt from the need to understand and, indeed, cater to this generation. Yet Gen X has proved irritatingly contrarian. "The soul of Gen X is amorphous, intangible, elusive," says Richard Thau, 32, who heads the civic group Third Millennium. "That's why I like the term X: fill in the blanks...
...spirit among Xers is a product of coming of age when that was the message coming from the Administration," says Mia von Sadovsky, 29, an ad-agency researcher. "We have hard-wired into us a different approach to getting things done." A survey by Third Millennium found that 53% of Gen Xers believe that the TV soap opera General Hospital will outlast Medicare. If permitted, 59% of Xers would opt out of Medicare and save on their own. Of any adult generation, they have the weakest attachment to political parties, and in 1992 Gen Xers cast a higher percentage...
While touching upon issues like poverty, illiteracy and the need to include inner-city youth in the coming information age millennium, Jones specifically addressed the problem of racism...
Gephardt seems to have the millennium race on the brain: he voted against the presidentially sanctioned budget last week, and in a speech this week he will oppose renewing China's most-favored-nation trading status, which the White House and Al Gore ardently support. At the moment, he seems determined to show that you can win in the long run by losing in the short run. Suggestion for Tony Bennett's song list: Rags to Riches...
...MILLENNIUM TRANSPORTATION...