Since the term hit three years ago, the media has grabbed on, and in 1986, just about anyone can describe *** yuppie. Somebody who makes over $30,000 *** year, lives in Hyde Park and drives *** BMW, *** person that drives *** BMW and eats out every night, to be *** yuppie and to be *** true yuppie, you have to go along and do things that someone else says is important for you to do. So what is *** yuppie really? Well, the proper definition. She is *** young urban professional of either sex who meets the following criteria resides in *** major city, claims to be *** baby boomer between 25 and 45, lives on aspirations of glory, prestige, social status, and money. Anyone who brunches on the weekend or works out after work. *** yuppie thinks World War II was fought over Volkswagen Rabbits and Toyotas. Variations of yuppies include buppies, black urban professionals, puppies, Hispanic urban professionals, guppies, gay urban professionals, yuppies, Japanese urban professionals, and puppies, pregnant urban professionals. Some of the yuppies' favorite words are mesquite. Disc as in floppy or digital or K as in floors, not margarine, sports medicine, and of course user friendly. Now *** sure way to spot *** yuppie is by the cars they drive and the food they eat. Let's just call it yuppy chow. It includes anything on *** menu you can't pronounce or anything raw like broccoli or or raw fish. You see, the yuppie theory is to eat the food raw and then immediately jump in the jacuzzi. That way it cooks inside your body. What about you? Are you one? Well, here's *** test to see. Question number one. Have you ever ordered tofu substitute instead of ice cream, even though you knew deep down the tofu had just as many calories? Question 2. Have you ever bought *** product solely because it had *** brand name you couldn't pronounce? Question number 3. Have you ever gone out of your way to find Linguini or vermicelli, even though you knew it was the same thing as spaghetti? And question number 4, have you ever spent hours agonizing over why Jane Fonda married Tom Hayden, even though Woody Allen is still available? Well, if you answered yes to any of these, you're *** hopelessly addicted yuppie, which, by the way, is *** thing of the past for two reasons. The first is purely economic. Consider this While only 4% of all baby boomers make over $45,000 *** year, The demand for luxury goods and services is at an all-time high. So too is consumer debt, up 18% in the last year alone. When the ad said by, the yuppies said yup, and now they're out of cash. The second reason is the fact that the yuppie is *** trend, *** trend that has gone the way of all trends. As *** trend moves across the country and it finds its way into the local high schools, for instance. The trendsetter is off somewhere else. So what trend is around the corner? What I detect is *** much more conservative kind of trend running through this country. It's *** trend that says home values are more important, religious values are more important. The profit line is not as important as it used to be. There is *** trend in the country right now. Maybe away from some of the pain connected with buying and buying and buying and maybe the low level of pleasure that comes out of that. No matter what the current trend is, one day the pendulum will swing toward consumerism again, and when the baby boomers are called senior citizens, the chances are when the TV says bye, they'll say it right now. Michael Collins, news tonight.