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clogs to clogs in three generations

The idea that a family can escape poverty for a time but then become impoverished again, all in the span of three generations. Primarily heard in UK. With the way you're spending our family's money, we'll be clogs to clogs in three generations!

generation gap

The difference of opinions and attitudes, especially in relation to social changes and politics, that develop as each generation changes from the one before it. Attitudes toward gay marriage reflects a clear generation gap on the issue today.

Generation X

and Generation X'er

people reaching puberty during the 1970s and 1980s. Three or four generation X'ers were in the antique store looking eagerly at some of those horrible old dinette chairs from the 1950s.

generation gap

A broad difference in values and attitudes between one generation and another, especially between parents and their children. For example, There's a real generation gap in their choice of music, restaurants, clothing-you name it . [1960s"

clogs to clogs in three generations

the return of a family to poverty after one generation of prosperity.

now generation

n. the (once current) generation of young people who seemed to want only instant gratification. All those people in the now generation want to start out with fancy cars and nice houses.

See also: generation, now

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Mortgage rates were at generationally low levels from the outset, a result of monetary easing, reduced demand for corporate credit and low long-term rates.

A new chapter: MBA's forecast for 2004 calls for the fourth-highest year ever for residential originations. While the refinancing share will plummet to 28 percent this year from 66 percent in 2003, purchase originations will be strong. And the economic backdrop finally will be bright

Most generationally friendly (GF) companies treat their employees as they do their customers.

Generation gap communication gap: dealing with workplace challenges: managers in the 21st century have become--like it or not--pioneers in workplace leadership, managing four generations of employees. This article contains profiles of the four generations of the workforce, tips on how to train them, motivate them and communicate with them

We are a blended church - ethnically, generationally and economically.

'HOPE' IS BYWORD FOR THIS CHURCH ON 65TH ANNIVERSARY

Cowen: And I believe that the response to our show differs generationally.

The men behind QAF: Queer as Folk executive producers Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman speak frankly about what's PC and who responds best to the show.

Generationally speaking, Atkinson fell midway between the Pythons and the ``alternative'' crowd,belonging to neither.

Why making people smile is such torture for Rowan Atkinson; Angie Sammons discovers the private side of TV's funny man

This is key, because the project must be sustained by a committed group of individuals who own the problem and are going to see it through generationally after the initial resources are gone.

Out of bounds: crossing sectors to collaborate on mutually beneficial initiatives

It protects existing retirees, women, and the poor, has very low administrative costs, requires full portfolio diversification of account balances, forces contributors to invest for the long term, transforms accumulated account balances into inflation-protected pensions at retirement, and fully pays off the liabilities of the old system in a generationally equitable manner.

Privatizing Social Security the Right Way

Such a generationally unbalanced fiscal policy is also unsustainable: It indicates that taxes will have to be increased in the future to finance scheduled government purchases, or those purchases will have to be retrenched.

Social Security's treatment of postwar generations

During the decade of the 1980s, we witnessed the evolution of the modern law firm, which is a phenomenon distinctly and generationally different from the law firms that my father and Chesterfield Smith knew when they began practicing law in the 1940s.

Making a commitment

So while college-aged students change generationally, some development is constant and predictable.

Ages and stages: is that the same child I taught last year? The college student. (Pedagogy Saturday VI)

On any given night, this club draws a generationally and racially diverse mix, and its small space is usually quite crowded.

'Rice queens' and the men who love them. (Essay)

The adopting adults have blindly considered the children as generationally frozen: perpetually cute, biddable babies.

Jane Austen and the reconsigned child: the true identity of Fanny Price. (Miscellany)

While some buildings are completely turned into dormitories for one school, others are mixed with students from several colleges, and yet others are generationally mixed with long-time residents, who have so far been enlivened and not intimidated by their younger building mates.

Student housing gets 'A' for building re-use

Traditional Native American peoples thought generationally, seeing themselves, as individuals and communities, as part of a long and continuing chain of tradition and experience.

The dreaded comparison

Generationally, Millennials (16%) are at least twice as likely as any other generation to rate Congress positively (vs.