But the Labor Department's latest jobs reports and other recent data reports present a strong case for crowning baby boomers as the greatest victims of the recession and its dreadful consequences.
Espiritu's subjects document their changing sense of Filipino identity in the United States, much as Bulosan did as a member of the first substantial wave of immigrants.
As baby boomers came of high-school age, big schools promised economic efficiency, a greater choice of courses, and, of course, better football teams.
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18. 股市恐慌引发了一轮抛售潮。
Panic on the stock market set off a wave of selling.
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19. 天气又冷又潮，不过我们仍旧玩得很开心。
The weather was cold and wet. Still, we had a great time.
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20. 那些被难民潮席卷的国家想要立即建立安全区。
Countries overwhelmed by the human tide of refugees want safe havens set up at once.
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21. 它因塞文潮而闻名，塞文潮是一种定期从海里沿河向上流动的巨浪。
It's well known for the Severn Bore—a tall wave of water that regularly—flows up the river from the sea.
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22. 年龄自然是一个因素，现在只有58%的 Y 世代的人们还时不时地用到座机，相比之下，有84%的婴儿潮世代的人们，家里的电话号码已经50年没有变了。
Age is naturally a factor—only 58 percent of Generation Ys still use landlines now and then, compared to 84 percent of Baby Boomers who've perhaps had the same home number for 50 years.
That said, to be honest the only people who ever ring our home phone are our Baby Boomers parents, to the point where we play a game and guess who is calling before we pick up the phone (using Caller ID would take the fun out of it).
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24. 1970年到1991年间的大型风暴潮造成约44万人死亡。
Major storm surges in 1970 and 1991 caused the deaths of about 440,000 people.
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25. 相比影响我们设定美国最新一波移民潮的准入限制，这将对我们的未来产生更大的影响。
It will have more impact on our future than where we decide to set the admissions bar for the latest wave of would-be Americans.
