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...some there is a downside to this prosperity. Political observers said this power of the baby-boomer vote and dollar is disenfranchising other members of the Boston community and thus leading to low voterturnout. These analysts said the success of thebaby boom generation has forced traditionalBostonians out of gentrified neighborhoods and seta political agenda attractive to only...
Wall Street has always had contrarians who hunt for fallen angels, but the number of available so-called distressed securities was not large enough to support many specialists in this field. In recent years, however, a surge in bankruptcies has created a boom in the bust market. The value of investments made in distressed securities could reach $20 billion this year, in contrast to less than $1 billion a decade...
Romance on the run in Someone to Watch Over Me. -- Passion in the closet in Maurice. -- Yuppie in the nursery in Baby Boom...
...child and have a career at the same time, without a man in her life? Can she keep up with clients and ambitious underlings and still have time to find a trustworthy nanny and to work on getting her child into the "right" preschool? As it often does, Baby Boom offers a pat and unsurprising answer--"Nope...
Keaton's performance and a handful of funny lines are not enough, however, to save Baby Boom from its insubstantiality. If it weren't for the bitter aftertaste of the movie's fatuous treatment of an important question or its vitriolic stereotyping, Baby Boom would be completely forgettable...