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Lexicon for the ‘90s . . .

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* crunchy granola: a person who is emotionally or temperamentally still living in the 1960s, as expressed in dress, language or social values.

* woopie: a person of comfortable means who is over 65. (well-off-older-person+ie, as in yuppie).

* sticky floor: the inability to rise above an entry level position--the plight of hundreds of thousands of women trapped in low-wage, low-mobility jobs; (the other end of the glass ceiling).

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* fatism: discrimination against people of size.

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