Word: strained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the baby boomers had a placid childhood in the 1950s, which helped inspire them to start their revolution, today's twentysomething generation grew up in a time of drugs, divorce and economic strain. They virtually reared themselves. TV provided the surrogate parenting, and Ronald Reagan starred as the real-life Mister Rogers, dispensing reassurance during their troubled adolescence. Reagan's message: problems can be shelved until later. A prime characteristic of today's young adults is their desire to avoid risk, pain and rapid change. They feel paralyzed by the social problems they see as their inheritance: racial strife...
Raised in a time of drugs, divorce and economic strain, the twentysomething crowd wants to postpone growing up -- at least according to the previous generation's rules. Members of the 18-to-29 group seem to possess only a vague sense of their own identity but a monumental preoccupation with all the problems the baby boomers will leave for them...
...Sunbelters should not buy Astroturf just yet. Help may be on the way. Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a strain of grass so resistant to drought that in some locales, it may not need to be watered at all. The university's test patch, at a research center near Fort Lauderdale, is thick and green, even though it has received no water, except for an occasional rainfall, since March...
With each passing month, a few more hospitals decide they can no longer stand the strain. Chicago has lost four of its ten trauma centers -- specialized units set up within hospitals to handle victims of car wrecks, violence and other life-threatening injuries. In Dade County, Fla., every hospital has dropped out of the trauma network, except James M. Jackson Memorial: one trauma center for more than 2 million residents. Many other emergency departments across the country have "down licensed," or substantially reduced the scope of their emergency services...
...have enthralled youngsters with the world's most popular home-video games, but it gets no respect from adults. An antiviolence watchdog group has rated some 70% of the company's games "harmful for children." Physicians warn that too much rapid-fire button pushing can lead to hand strain, a condition dubbed Nintendinitis. And many parents, seeing their kids play Super Mario Bros. for hours on end, are asking what a nonstop diet of synthetic reality is doing to impressionable young minds...