They are often in their early 30s, possibly parents, working full- or part-time, and likely to be the first generation in their family to get an undergraduate education.
Those who interpret the American Dream as a post-class ideal are comfortable with a reset button for each generation in the family, giving a fresh chance for each child to economically thrive or wither.
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My 6-year-old daughter, the fourth generation in our family to come to this place, learned to love the water here the same way that my sister and I did more than 30 years ago.
And 56 percent of all Hispanic kids now in the second and third generation are being raised in single-family homes.
The firm, in its third generation of family ownership, has grown flabby.
Intel is expected to begin shipping its next generation microprocessor family codenamed Sandy Bridge in Q4 of 2010.
In a generation or two, her family's chains of slavery will be completely broken.
"Every business clan has its politics, but in the end those who deliver, win, " says Thapar of his emergence as the dark horse in the family's third generation.
In retelling the story at his father's funeral, Al Gore used it not just as a reminder of a road not taken, but of the distance this branch of the Gore family had traveled in one generation to reach the heights of national power.
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"I rather enjoyed it (his music) because in my family my brother's generation likes his music, " said customer Xu Wei.
Finally, Brough found Marco Gambassi, 44, a third-generation cobbler interested in taking small projects after selling his family's factory in Tuscany to Gucci.
The collection was assembled by owner Billy Bickford, a third-generation Guatemalan otherwise occupied with running the family businesses in construction, real estate, and finance.
He is the third generation of his family to assume a leading role in the PPP -- the party was set up by his grandfather Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan's first elected prime minister.
In one generation, he often muses, his family has vaulted from the man standing at the back of the banqueting hall serving drinks to the one at the front, giving the speech from the podium.
So when a leadership transition occurs in a family business, the new generation of leadership should be careful to maintain and build on the networks and knowledge of the former leaders, while expanding their own networks.
In our, family we've been calling the trustee the "tai-pan" because in the book Noble House by James Clavell, the tai-pan was the one descendant in each generation who was chosen to manage the family's wealth to advance the family's mission as much as possible.
She's Jelly Belly's executive vice chairman and the fifth generation of her family to run the company, started in 1869 by her great-great-grandfather.
Generation Scotland, launched in February 2006, is also seeking family members to volunteer in Glasgow and Tayside, aiming ultimately for 50, 000 people from across Scotland.
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The family effect declined substantially in the second generation but when the founder was still in charge, even as chairman with a hired manager as CEO, shareholders did better.
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The youthful-looking Mendoza is the oldest son in his family and part of the third generation of Mendozas to run Polar, which started with a brewery founded by his grandfather in 1941.
It was Lucas Candies, a fourth generation family-owned company with a quaint storefront shop in Haverstraw, NY, along the Hudson River near West Point.
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And although the biggest group, Tata, will move beyond its family when its heirless fifth-generation patriarch retires in 2012, it is in no hurry to break itself up.
The fact remains we are still a generation away from bridging the perceptions of a womens role in the family to be in keeping with the roles that we are now able to and required to play in the workplace.
This leaves many trapped in a cycle of debt, exacerbated as each generation subdivides the family land.
In addition, it will also introduce its 4th generation core processor family, code-named Haswell, later this year.
Jenna Miscavage Hill was the third generation of a family of scientologists, born into it and raised in its disciplines.
Last week I spent the afternoon with Justin Chang, third generation member of the Ascot Chang family, the finest shirt maker in Asia and one of the best in the world.
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Yvonne Bauer, 34, is the fifth generation of her family to run a German mass-media company started in 1875.
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