Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heart of the story are runaway real estate prices and a younger generation that was unable to climb aboard before housing became so hard to afford. It would cost Peggy almost $38,000 for a down payment on a median- price house in Los Angeles, something she could not manage at her present savings rate for about 40 years. As it is, she pays $500 a month in rent, almost three times as much as her father's initial mortgage payments...
...more than a bit ironic, in this campaign season, that Bob and Carol Forrester, who look economically very much like Republicans, plan to vote for Dukakis and that the younger generation -- Billy, Peggy and Paul's wife Silva, who are balanced precariously on the lower edge of the middle class -- are all voting for Bush. Explains Peggy: "I personally like Reagan and Bush. We don't have a war, and taxes are better. No one has to make a job for me. I can do it on my own, and I think other people can too." Yet she is uneasy...
...crop of younger TV hosts has proved a quick study in knowing what to say and show, especially at a time when things forbidden one month may be permissible the next. View host Zakharov compares it with being "a sharpshooter. You have to wait until the right moment to hit the target. But you must learn to compromise. That is part of the new tolerance...
...connect with peers. "Even in college, at beer parties, I would have the attitude of a 54-year-old," says Lawer. "When a child says, 'Mommy, Mommy, guess what just happened,' there is a difference in the response of a 22-year-old and a 42-year-old. The younger person is closer to childhood to share the wonder...
...likely to be more aware of death than many of their peers. Certainly, as young adults, they may find themselves caring for a chronically ill parent. Perhaps because she is the daughter of older parents, King understands her daughter Megan, 9, when she says, "Mommy, I wish you were younger; then you wouldn't die so soon." Still, psychologists think many children are acutely afraid of death when they are very young -- and when their parents are least likely...