Word: opt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...told Dream study pollsters, "Worrying about the future is a major source of stress"--far more so than for their parents or grandparents. More than three-quarters of Xers say, "No matter what I plan for the future, when I finally get there, it's always something different." Some opt out of the rat race. "What seems like apathetic hedonism actually represents a fairly informed bet," American Demographics columnist Marc Spiegler wrote recently. "Why put up with the cubicled world's woes when its promised delayed gratification is an ever more dicey proposition?" The slogan on Eddie Bauer's shopping...
...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 of votes for Ross Perot than older adults did. "We have a libertarian streak," says Thau. "We grew up in a period with...
John R. Carroll '97 said price hikes made his parents opt for accommodations in Boston...
...after they lose their jobs to ATMs. And the Website where I just bought some running shoes looks nothing at all like a salesperson at the Athlete's Foot. Similarly, if given the choice between lunch with an accountant and lunch with Turbotax, who among us would opt for Turbotax? (O.K., maybe a few people would.) But lunchtime conversation isn't what we want from an accountant anyway...
...Yale, a third of upperclass students opt for its 14-meal-per-week plan, according to Allen R. Kenney, Yale's director of food services...