WASHINGTON -- Newsweek Magazine has dubbed 1984 the 'year of the yuppie' because, it said, the affluent baby boomers hold increasing influence in politics and the marketplace.
But the magazine failed to define exactly what constitutes a yuppie, the acronym for young urban professional.
A yuppie must, of course, be among the 60 million baby-boom Americans born between 1946 and 1964, and with a hefty income.
Newsweek cites a figure by SRI International, a California think tank, that 4 million Americans between 25 and 39 earn more than $40,000 annually. Some 1.2 million of them live in cities.
Political consultants, says Newsweek, call that definition too narrow and includes, instead, all those of the baby boom generation who went to college or work in white collar or technical jobs -- some 20 million people.
