Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...generation is forged through common experience. The cohort described as "matures," born from 1909 to 1945, was shaped by the Depression and World War II. "Boomers," born from 1946 to 1964, grew up in affluence: economic progress was assumed, freeing them to focus on idealism and personal growth. Young Xers, however, lurched through the recession of the early '80s, only to see the mid-decade glitz dissipate in the 1987 stock-market crash and the recession of 1990-91. Gen X could never presume success. In their new book Rocking the Ages, Yankelovich's Smith and his colleague Ann Clurman...
...carbons of all his 20,000 letters, and taking himself seriously even when slaving for a Puerto Rican bowling magazine, Thompson figured out early that the best way to make a name for himself was by fashioning a persona. The deliriously entertaining rants assembled here trace the renegade?s progress from editing the sports pages of his Air Force?base magazine, through a stint as a TIME copy boy, to his first best seller, 'Hell's Angels,' in 1967. There are absurdly elaborate screeds to collection agencies and complaints to banks about the color of his checks. The proud highwayman...
Both union and University officials said they were glad to see progress in the stalemate extending three years back when the University first proposed the cuts...
Despite this adversity, the Crimson steadily made progress throughout the season, culminating in a second place finish at the Massachusetts State Championship...
With the capital campaign theoretically raising enough money to create 90 new Faculty positions, right now is the time to encourage progress and goad it along with vocal support and the weapon that strikes Harvard's heel: money. Already, the Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard has received $500,000 from alumnae that it plans to hold in escrow until the University has tenured an acceptable number of women--specifically, the standpoint set by the University report of 1970. And the senior class has established the Alternative Senior Gift Fund with the same criterion for its release...