Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rising in many developing nations, which do not have the resources to deal with such a situation. They also contend that no matter how sharply birth rates are reduced, the world population will continue to grow for another century merely because older generations are not dying as quickly as younger ones are being born...
...will it take a big shift to affect television's business model. Ads are sold based on demographics. Suppose only relatively well-off, younger, tech-savvy viewers--the kind advertisers crave--adapt to PVRs. Bernoff posits that if X-Files fans bypass all those pricey tech ads, such highly acclaimed, high-budget programs could migrate to pay cable, replaced by more America's Favorite Self-Immolations--cheap programming aimed at downscale audiences...
Like My So-Called Life and Relativity, the 1996-97 series about twentysomething lovers, Once and Again tracks the younger generation as well, observing with typical precision as boomer idealists and cynical Gen-Yers navigate one another's crises and expectations. A daughter's insecurity leads her mother to confront her own sexuality. A father's first serious post-divorce infatuation sparks his daughter's first semi-adult rebellion. A son's condoms end up--well, you'll want to see that for yourself...
...year-old Senator or Jack Kemp (Occidental College, class of '57) who got the vice-presidential nomination. Instead, the Republican ticket was led by Bob Dole, another World War II Guy, who was running for President in his 73rd year. Now the leading candidates for 2000, Bush the Younger and Al Gore, are both Boomers. After 1996, we Fifties Guys had to face the cold, hard fact that our one shot at the White House might have been lost when Michael Dukakis peered out of that tank...
Seniors say they are startled to think that the students sitting next to them in lecture are so much younger...