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The term was popularized by Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture.
The term " Generation X " was coined by the Magnum photographer Robert Capa in the early 1950s.
The term was popularized by Canadian author Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, concerning young adults during the late 1980s and their lifestyles.
While Coupland's book helped to popularize the phrase " Generation X ," in a 1989 magazine article he erroneously attributed the term to English musician Billy Idol.
The " Lost Generation " is a term used to refer to the generation, actually a cohort, that came of age during World War I.
Stein is credited with bringing the term " Lost Generation " into use.
The launch of Sputnik 1 inspired U. S. writer Herb Caen to coin the term " beatnik " in an article about the Beat Generation in the San Francisco Chronicle on 2 April 1958.
The term was used frequently throughout Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Landon Jones, who coined the term " baby boomer " in his book Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation, defined the span of the baby-boom generation as extending from 1943 through 1960, when annual births increased over 4, 000, 000.
Stein is credited with bringing the term " Lost Generation " into use.
While she has been credited with inventing the term " Lost Generation " for some of these expatriate American writers, at least three versions of the story that led to the phrase are on record, two by Ernest Hemingway and one by Gertrude Stein.
Caen coined the term by adding the Russian suffix-nik after Sputnik I to the Beat Generation.
* The Lost Generation, also known as the Generation of 1914 in Europe, is a term originating with Gertrude Stein to describe those who fought in World War I.
* Pluralist Generation, another term for Generation Z that reflects the pluralistic and fragmented society that those with birthdates between 1997-2012 are born into.
* The Generation of € 700 is a term popularized by the Greek mass media and refers to educated Greek twixters of urban centers who generally fail to establish a career.
Howe and Strauss maintain that they use the term Millennials in place of Generation Y because the members of the generation themselves coined the term.
Millennials are sometimes called the " Trophy Generation ", or " Trophy Kids ," a term that reflects the trend in competitive sports, as well as many other aspects of life, where mere participation is frequently enough for a reward.
In an 1870 address titled, " Spontaneous Generation ", Thomas Henry Huxley defined biogenesis as life originating from other life and coined the negative of the term, abiogenesis, which was the term that became dominant.
The term " Beatnik " was coined by Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle on 2 April 1958, a portmanteau on the name of the recent Russian satellite Sputnik and Beat Generation.
The term Generation 1 is a retronym ; the series was simply known as " Transformers " until the release of the Generation 2 series.

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Jones became the first linguist in the western world to use the term phoneme in its current sense, employing the word in his article The phonetic structure of the Sechuana Language.
Jones referred to his fund as being " hedged ", a term then commonly used on Wall Street, to describe how the fund managed risk exposure from overall market movement.
The term " Japhetic " was also applied by William Jones and other early linguists to what became known as the Indo-European language group.
*" Shortcuts " by Thomas Jones, discusses the term " political correctness " in British discourse, London Review of Books, December 1, 2005
The introduction of the term Received Pronunciation is usually credited to Daniel Jones.
The term was coined by Lee Ross some years after a now-classic experiment by Edward E. Jones and Victor Harris ( 1967 ).
Chuck Jones coined the term " illustrated radio " to refer to the shoddy style of most television cartoons that depended more on their soundtracks than visuals.
The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.
The term Japhetic was also applied by the early linguists ( brothers Grimm, William Jones, Rasmus C. Rask and others ) to what later became known as the Indo-European language group, on the assumption that, if descended from Japheth, the principal languages of Europe would have a common origin, which apart from Uralic, Kartvelian, Pontic, Dagestanian, and Basque, appears to be the case.
The term is especially associated with Colonel ( later Brigadier General ) Theodore C. Lyster ( the first Chief Surgeon, Aviation Section, U. S. Signal Corps, U. S. Army ), and with Major Isaac H. Jones.
District 5, which covers the central portion north of downtown, is represented by Jones ; he is currently serving in his second term and is the most senior council member, as a result.
Irwin, Jones, McGovern ( 2008 ) believe that the term ' scab ' is part of a larger metaphor involving strikes.
Storr applies the term " guru " to figures as diverse as Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, Gurdjieff, Rudolf Steiner, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jim Jones and David Koresh.
" European miracle " – a term coined by Eric Jones in 1981 – refers to the surprising rise of Europe during the Early Modern period.
In 2007, the company settled a dispute with EMI over royalties, and announced that long term chief executive Neil Aspinall had retired and been replaced by American music industry executive Jeff Jones.
In 1940, newly elected Governor Sam Houston Jones urged that Brooks be defeated in the Democratic congressional primary, but Brooks won his third term that year.
The term was coined by Lee Ross some years after a now-classic experiment by Edward E. Jones and Victor Harris ( 1967 ).
Jones wrote that he found Ross's term " overly provocative and somewhat misleading ", and also joked, " Furthermore, I'm angry that I didn't think of it first.
Jones had borrowed the term " revolutionary suicide " from Black Panther leader and Peoples Temple supporter Huey Newton who had argued " the slow suicide of life in the ghetto " ought to be replaced by revolutionary struggle that would end only in victory ( socialism and self determination ) or revolutionary suicide ( death ).
The term " Grand Slam " was first applied to Bobby Jones ' achievement of winning the four major golf events of 1930: The Open Championship, the U. S. Open, the U. S. Amateur and The Amateur Championship.
The scholar T. Gwynn Jones suggested that a possible origin of the term " Berwyn " was " Bryn ( iau ) Gwyn ( ap Nudd )", where the Middle Welsh word " bre " ( hill ) had mutated to Ber + Gwyn, Gwyn ap Nudd being the mythological King of the Tylwyth teg ( Fair Folk, or fairies ).
No long term indices like the Dow Jones or FTSE Index exist, although some figures have started to be compiled by Stanley Gibbons and Stamp Magazine in the UK.
That stance, while unremarkable at the time, ultimately rendered him incapable of re-election in a state whose antislavery, anticompromise faction became dominant midway in Jones ' second term, as the new Republican Party.

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