Baby Boom

Over a short period--less than three years--Dylan wrote about two dozen politically oriented songs whose creative lyrics and imagery reflected the changing mood of the postwar baby-boom generation and the urgency of the civil rights and antiwar movements. ❋ Peter Dreier (2011)

But even if the economy were stronger, the programs would be facing pressure in coming years as the large baby-boom generation reaches old age and people tend to live longer, leaving comparatively fewer workers to pay benefits for a large cadre of retirees. ❋ Unknown (2009)

About 37.5% of them held at least a two-year college degree in 2008, almost identical to the 37% of 45 - to 64-year olds — roughly the baby-boom generation. ❋ Stephanie Banchero (2010)

Younger whites, for example, are more educated than their baby-boom counterparts, but that generational advance is driven by women. ❋ Stephanie Banchero (2010)

It was the fact that so many of those most subversive of films were being turned out by the studios, which, for a brief period, sort of lost their collective minds in the wake of Easy Rider and the rise of the baby-boom generation. ❋ Marshall Fine (2011)

About 37.5% of them held at least a two-year college degree in 2008, almost identical to the 37% of 45 - to 64-year olds -- roughly the baby-boom generation. ❋ Ezra Klein (2010)

The number of new cases of Alzheimer's are expected to sharply increase as the baby-boom generation ages. ❋ Jennifer Corbett Dooren (2011)

The number of grandparent drivers is expected to increase in the coming years as more members of the baby-boom generation become grandparents. ❋ Jennifer Corbett Dooren (2011)

But since I'm not entirely naïve and this practice will probably accelerate given the baby-boom generation's narcissism and need for instant gratification if Ed Koch has now been rendered immortal can Rudy Giuliani be far behind? ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)