>>Hi Bruce ----
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>>The "O"'s? Shoot, I don't know. Then they refer to 1900-1910 they call it "just after the turn of the century" and leave it at that.
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>But that's kind of vague, What if we want to be more specific and refer to "how will the economy fare in the *blank*" (as we might say 90s for the blank)?
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>Well, I thought about calling the next decade the "zeros"...has kind a of a funny connotation to it, though :) "Singles" sounds a little better...
How about "early century"? "how will the economy fare in the early century".. I bet old folks will keep saying "nowadays".. The "singles" sounds ambiguous. But then again, what will you call the years between 2010 and 2020?