American relations with Mexico, though much warmer than a generation ago, are still prickly.
Did any economist a generation ago predict the Internet or the explosion in bandwidth?
Energy is a smaller part of the average household budget than it was a generation ago.
Refrigerators use a quarter of the power they used a generation ago, according to EPRI.
Along the way his teams won three Super Bowls, the last one a generation ago, in 1984.
They're also cleaning the Mets' clock in newspaper column space, which was rarely the case a generation ago.
Homes appear to have been built a generation ago, even though the community's first phase opened in 2004.
Budrik, though, did not have to risk his life savings, as he might have done a generation ago.
And the devices now routinely do tasks that would have been the stuff of science fiction a generation ago.
China's 1.4 billion people are rapidly urbanising and ravenous for all the goods they couldn't have a generation ago.
He once lived in Japan but that was more than a generation ago.
Nine states and the District of Columbia now recognize same-sex marriages, up from zero less than a generation ago.
Their ideas have flamed out the same way Keynesianism did a generation ago.
Oil shale is an idea that was tested a generation ago, then abandoned when the price of crude oil plunged.
Successful sportsmen and women are now earning sums that the stars of a generation ago could not have dreamed of.
It is one of the most encouraging developments in Chinese movies since that glorious burst of work a generation ago.
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Cassettes and their random manglings at the hands of devious tape players seemed to be facts of life a generation ago.
Only a generation ago, an auction house such as Sotheby's used to have a sale a week in its porcelain department.
Disapproval of Mr White's choice was far more muted than might have been expected in most western societies a generation ago.
Overall inflation is indeed much lower than it was a generation ago.
So, Silicon Valley dwellers, with the cheap land and wide-open spaces of a generation ago long gone you tell us: why stick around?
Less than a generation ago, Chinese villagers crowded around newspapers pasted to walls in the center of town to read the latest news.
Cars in America may be 90% cleaner than they were a generation ago, but this improvement has been largely wiped out by growth.
Although she says that in practice A-levels are now so different from a generation ago that it is "not comparing like with like".
Children as young as 6 are taking MMA classes in place of the karate or tae kwon do lessons of a generation ago.
" Zilke says auto technicians face components repairs "virtually unheard of a generation ago, " and need to be "master diagnosticians well-versed in electronics.
And, yes, the Koreans have made impressive progress in commodity semiconductors, an industry where a generation ago the Japanese were dominant.
She and the professionals profiled below represent a sample of the reconstituted American workforce: more resourceful, flexible and innovative than they were a generation ago.
Their incomes are scarcely better than they were a generation ago.
Today, because of your work, air pollution is down by more than half, and lead pollution is down more than 90 percent from a generation ago.
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