The greatest generation built America into a global force for prosperity, opportunity, and freedom.
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Because of that whole greatest generation going to college, that built our middle class.
Mr McCain provides the perfect link between the greatest generation and the Vietnam generation.
They were part of that Greatest Generation -- surviving the Depression, joining the Army, serving in World War II.
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None of the possible contenders, though, can claim the pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps, Greatest Generation personal story that shaped Frank Lautenberg's years of public service.
You are part of a generation of Americans -- the new, greatest generation of Americans -- responding to the call of duty by your nation.
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We can't let the founders down, we can't let every generation that's come before us down, we can't let the Greatest Generation down, we can't let our children down.
The Greatest Generation had the can-do attitude and forged the Greatest infrastructure and middle class prosperity in the history of the world with top tax rates of 70% to 90%.
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Scannell contrasts that attitude with the perspective of those members of the Greatest Generation, for instance, who often volunteer out of a more general sense of a duty and obligation.
Back in the Greatest Generation years, the American Dream was to own a car and a house and have a life long job that would allow you to afford those material goals.
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Yet, the Greatest Generation understood that the sacrifice entailed in winning that war would be for naught if a further, financial sacrifice were not made to secure the peace in Europe and East Asia.
If you are a bricks-and-mortar retail store, focus your outreach locally, so that you can emphasize your coziness and convenience, which resonates more with Boomers than with younger consumers (and works with the Greatest Generation, too).
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Every year on Veterans Day , we baby boomers look around and see fewer and fewer members of the Greatest Generation--our parents and grandparents who rose en mass to fight a terrible war and keep us safe.
For a while, after Tom Brokaw's "The Greatest Generation" focused belated attention on the quietly heroic lives of our parents and grandparents, it finally seemed that the oldest Americans were being allowed to take a victory lap.
There is a generation rising -- singled out in a recent TIME Magazine cover story as " The Next Greatest Generation" -- that, led by its young military veterans, is eager to put aside partisan squabbles to get things done.
When I hold my Father's medals, or visit him where he rests at Fort Rosecrans, and see row after row after row of white crosses, I weep for this greatest generation, who sacrificed everything, without a second thought, to give us freedom.
Similar to "The Greatest Generation" who confronted the challenge of World War II and inspired the major societal changes that followed, the new "Green Generation" includes ordinary people engaged in individual and collective activities to improve urgent national and global issues, such as climate change or the world's water crises.
And it was that greatest generation that built America into the greatest force of prosperity and opportunity and freedom that the world has ever known -- Americans like my grandfather, who went off to war just boys, then returned home as men, and then they traded in one uniform and set of responsibilities for another.
W. Bush, the non-boomer greatest-generation Bush who, like McCain, was shot out of the sky in a real war.
Harrell, dubbed "the greatest trumpeter of his generation" by Entertainment Weekly, is also schizophrenic.
It's hardly the greatest achievement of our generation, or even the device of the year.
The greatest tweaker of his generation did not care to be tweaked.
If Mr Mandelson really does possess one of the greatest minds of his generation, he will have now to prove it outside government.
Schofield, who in 2000 was made a Companion of Honour for services to drama, is considered one of the greatest actors of his generation.
Zidane had emerged from international retirement to lead his country to the final, a fitting stage for the greatest player of his generation's final game.
The chief executive of Chesapeake Energy and the greatest wildcatter of his generation, Aubrey McClendon, will resign from the company he founded on April 1.
Bill Clinton, who entered the year with a reputation as the greatest campaigner of his generation, seemed to be a bit out of step with the national mood.
Although he did not die in battle, the greatest pitcher of his generation, Christy Mathewson, developed tuberculosis after being gassed as part of a training exercise in WWI.
He believes Grant Morrison - who may be better known to some UK readers for his more adult 'anti-hero' graphic novels, such as The Invisibles - is one of the greatest storytellers of his generation.
Porter, Harvard Business School professor, and one of the greatest business thinkers of our generation.
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