Word: profession
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...younger people, the way I am is probably more consonant with how they are. They are NOT a captive audience, so if that's what interests them, that's fine. If they weren't interested already, it's not for not having heard the music, although many profess to hate classical music without ever really having heard it. But I see a lot of kids jazzed up about going to see Mozart operas, and I think that's amazing...
...markedly more pessimistic than Xers. Fully 71% of boomers say, "If I had the chance to start over in life, I would do things differently." Only 59% of Xers and matures agree. Likewise, while Xers see themselves more as life-long job hoppers than as company loyalists, they profess far more satisfaction with their work than their elders. "Boomers entered the marketplace years ago with high expectations," says Yankelovich's Smith. "And when they were disappointed, they thought the future looked bleak for Xers. So they portrayed them as a loser generation...
...most Americans already know by now, not only does DeGeneres boast this particular bedroom proclivity, but in the coming weeks her TV alter ego--conveniently named Ellen--will also profess to being a lesbian. And, this it seems, forms the basis for all of the hoopla. In less than a month, American television will showcase the first homosexual leading lady. Hurray for another cultural landmark...
...licenses fund the board. Robert Deblinger, assistant director of the state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, referred to this as "sportsmen watching sportsmen's dollars." Deblinger sees nothing wrong with recommending that anyone interested in serving on the board buy a hunting license. So state citizens need both to profess the required belief and to pay a fee if they want to hold an appointed state office. We might as well allow only smokers to spend the revenues from cigarette taxes, so smokers can watch smokers' dollars...
...finding more and more that religious groups can fill the gap between those things for which a health-care system can pay and the many services it will never provide. Thousands of congregations have found that this is an exciting and gratifying way to practice what we profess to accept from our Holy Scripture...