Gen X

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• How Generations X And Y Are Coping With The Crisis

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 571
  While I’ve talked about how “The Great Recession” has affected groups such as the Baby Boomers and college seniors, I haven’t really looked at Generations X (born roughly 1965-76) or Y (born roughly 1977-1998). Martha Irvine of the Associated Press talked about the approximately 51 million Gen Xers on November ...
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• Iconix could make Playboy work: Kill the mag, take the sex out of the brand

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 670
  Filed under: Deals , Media World Playboy ( PLA ) tends to be associated with the magazine and sex. Not the hardcore, nasty kind, of course -- Playboy has always been more than a tad distinguished, staying above board while the adult entertainment industry has chosen to compete in ways that my editor would delete ...
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• GenX superpowers activate!

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 116
  If I could have any superpower it would be a melding of a photographic memory with the ability to instantly transform any given information into a useful means. A sort of Rain Man – McGyver dude! Not sure what the outfit would look like exactly but it definitely wouldn’t be from Kmart because Kmart sucks! And of ...
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• Tournament of Rock – Legends: The Beatles vs Elvis Costello

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 592
  Results: It was only a matter of time: there are now officially no Gen Xers left in the ToR, as a great Boomer legend waxes U2 … by nearly a two-to-one margin. Wow, on so many levels. The numbers: #5 Neil Young 65% ; #1 U2 35%. NY moves on to the Great Eight. Up next, our search for the greatest Baby Boomer band ...
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• Dont let Detroit be erased. Tell its stories.

  
  Brand Noise — Authority: 100
  On Tuesday, a film about the Milton Hershey School was screened at Tribeca Cinema. The director Cynthia Wade and the producing agency ArnoldNYC walked a fine line with their closed wall client to come up with a documentary that would...
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• 2 GenX thinkers have new books out

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 116
  Malcolm Gladwell (b. 1963) and Steven Levitt (b. 1967 [same year as me, which of course makes me feel like a loser, because what have I done, right?]) both have new books out. Both are GenXer and both are innovative thinkers. Indicative of the GenX mindset they think quite differently than most others in their ...
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• New featured blog….

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 116
  …comes via JenX67 (as if I even had to say it — all bow down to the goddes off all things Generation X). And thank God too, right. About time. I know, I know! I change my featured blog about as often as I change the sheets, that is if I was the one who changed the sheets — wifey does that, and quite ...
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• Will I Be Part of “Gen U,” the Generation Unretired?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Many of us grew up with a stereotypical life plan: Ill go to school, college, get a job, get married, have a family, get a home, and maybe even have a white picket fence and a dog. “Then magically, at 65, I will retire and can finally relax.”  Some of these notions have faded into oblivion - in fact, ...
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• GenX in recession

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 116
  What is a recent Washington Post article (which I was hipped to by The Gen X Files blog) saying about GenXer attitudes in light of the current recession? They’re antsy and edgy, tired of waiting for promotion opportunities at work as their elders put off retirement. Huh. Doesn’t sound all that different ...
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• The Equalizer star Edward Woodward dies at 79

  
  Desdinova - Super Villain of the Ozarks — Authority: 120
  Equalizer star Edward Woodward dies at 79 -- latimes.com A little video from You Tube:  Posted using ShareThis
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• A somewhat whimsical look at waiter charateristics by generation

  
  So You Want To Be A Waiter — Authority: 134
  Grooming: Baby boomer – increased emphasis on ear and nose hair, greying hair, managing the balance between bald tops and remaining side scalp, concern about moles, age spots and wrinkles, complying to the letter with uniform standards because “We must have standards” Gen X – keeping a tight, hairline ...
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• News Blast: Kareems Grateful for Public Support, Gen-X Is Fed Up

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — Authority: 156
  Filed under: News Kareems Grateful for Public Support Kareem Abdul-Jabar says that the public reaction to his leukemia announcement has been resoundingly positive, allowing him to reconnect with many. [ NY Times ] Southern AIDS Patients Need More Aid from Government In the North, counseling, ...
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• real. grape. goodness. [welchs markets to generation x moms]

  
  jenX67: are you there, God? it's me, generation X. — Authority: 476
  I absolutely loved Welchs grape juice as a kid. Now, the company is marketing to me for the sake of my kids. Generation X moms are the target market for Welchs new campaign Real. Grape. Goodness. The ads feature TV personality Alton Brown who is well-known among foodies. Currently featured under the ...
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• Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor, with illustrations by Jim Di Bartolo

  
  Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists! — Authority: 403
  Remember your first kiss? While I’m sure it was exhilarating, it was most likely a great deal tamer than the supernatural busses that take center stage in Laini Taylor’s delicious collection of fantasy romances. In “Goblin Fruit,” a lonely girl wishes for love, but finds something else entirely behind a new ...
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• Talking About My Generation

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 440
  Gen X has gotten a bad rap, says this author - and I agree. Pete Peterson More Than Zero Often derided as cynical and disengaged, Generation Xers have plenty of public spirit. 13 November 2009 Pity Generation X, the Americans born between 1965 and 1981 who have been ...
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• Why ‘Millennials’ Are Impulse Shoppers

  
  ibranz Branding Resource Blog — Authority: 115
  - Elaine Wong Women ages 20 to 30 represent a $54 billion marketing opportunity for packaged goods companies, but their needs and values are vastly different from the generation before them, a new report from Information Resources found. “Winning With Millennial Women Shoppers” outlines this growing consumer ...
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• Get the Message!

  
  The Raddon Report — Authority: 107
  As financial institutions have continued to employ technology to improve their efficiencies, they have found that customer adoption of new technology is rarely ubiquitous; therefore, it needs to be supplemented with target market specificity (segmentation) in order to better attract, serve and retain customers.
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• Unemployments gloomy future

  
  Nonsensible Shoes — Authority: 432
  Unemployment. It’s Bad, and it’s going to get worse. As a Gen-Xer (though barely, Im on the cusp of being a Boomer), Ive looked at the Baby Boom generation with some disdain for dropping the ball given to them by the greatest generation. They endorsed radical expansion of government. They spent and spent and ...
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• 4 Generations in One Work Force: Which Employee Benefits Satisfy Them All?

  
  ResumeBear Blog — Authority: 118
  For the first time in American history, employers face the challenge of providing benefits to a work force spanning four generations: Generations X and Y (Millenials), Baby Boomers, and the Mature — sometimes called the Silent — Generation. X-ers like to text, Boomers like to meet in person. Y-ers are used to ...
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• King or Coupland?

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 116
  Which do I read first? Stephen King’s new novel, Under the Dom e? or Douglas Coupland ’s new novel, Generation A ? How to choose? How to choose? The King novel is over a 1,00o pages but I don’t really find that very daunting. In fact, I’m quiet undaunted by it, very much eager to read it. Perhaps ...
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