The Washington Post ... n Friday, December 5,1986 G3  
Demographers might call it the ÛÏBaby Bust" generation: a sort of statistical blip that turns up in the years between the awesome numbers of Baby Boomers, who need no introduction, and the so-called Echo Boomers, who are part of a birth rate that is once again on the rise.</br></br>For those ÛÏblippers" who are part of this demographic anomaly, a modest window of employment opportunity is opening, and nowhere is that phenomenon more evident than in the teen-oriented fast-food industry.</br></br>The Baby Boomers were children born in massive numbers from immediately after World War II until the mid-1960s, when the postwar economic boom petered out.</br></br>Ecological concerns combined with economic realities to produce grass roots advocates of what was called zero population growthÛÓa movement to hold the rate of procreation equal to the death rate, and preferably below it. According to the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, that era marked the first time that the population declined because of fewer births rather than because of war or natural disaster.</br></br>The Baby Bust generation was the result of that dramatic drop in population growth across the United States between 1965 and 1979, the year when the birth rate began picking up. Today, Baby Bust youngsters, now teenagers, find themselves in growing demand for entry-level jobs.