YUPPIES HAVE A NEW NAME: `YETTIES'

YUPPIES HAVE A NEW NAME: `YETTIES'

NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- Money-grubbing yuppies have met their match in the latest demographic group: the "yetties." That's the word from "Talk" magazine, which says yetties are "young, entrepreneurial, technology-based workers" who are making loads of money working at internet companies. The typical yettie has a strict dress code consisting of funky vintage eyeglasses and Banana Republic chinos. Yetties also frown upon briefcases, preferring bicycle messenger bags instead. And while the tasseled loafer was a big yuppie status symbol, yetties are more impressed by a pair of retro-style Puma sneakers. Finally, while cocaine was the yuppie drug of choice, yetties prefer pot -- which they often carry around inside an empty Altoids mints tin.