Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chum he is. From the moment he enters the Greek cultural center that serves as the tour's home base, people are after him, begging for autographs (Baldwin obliges) and introducing their wannabe-actor friends (Baldwin is polite). It could be worse. He could be younger brother Billy, who is along for the tour and is the center of a permanent amoeba of giggling girls. But it could be better. He could be older sister Beth, who sits unnoticed amid her famous brothers. "They have sisters?" asks someone in the crowd. "We're known as Nothing and Nobody," jokes Beth...
Pollsters, trend watchers and merchants are convinced that couples are getting married earlier than a few years ago. Bette Kahn, spokeswoman for Crate & Barrel, and Donata Maggipinto, director of food and entertainment for Williams-Sonoma, say the brides being listed on their registries are younger. Carolyn Campbell, owner of Los Angeles' Wedding Library, which serves thousands of brides, says their average age in 1990 was 27; today it's 24. Notes Marci Blum, a New York wedding consultant: "I look around the room and think, 'You should be in high chairs...
...Clurman, a partner at Yankelovich's MONITOR generational study, compares the new trend to the rumble on the tracks before the train is seen. "It'll take years for the numbers to catch up, but attitudinally, this generation is marrying younger," she says. All this cuts against the image pinned on Gen Xers at the start of the decade. The idea was that they were aimless and depressed, but the reality seems to be that they are overprogrammed and extraordinarily stressed. They are the first generation to be scheduled from their earliest play dates; to view school, even grade school...
Though the two younger brothers are definitely excited to be afforded the opportunity to play with their respective brothers at the college level, both point out that choosing Harvard was a decision based on much more than just family ties...
...When we were younger, Liam used to get pretty sick of me always beating him," Jeremiah said. "But he's catching up to me quickly, and I think it's great that we are competing on the same level...