Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like dry martinis and folk music, another icon of the 1960s is coming back: the big, long car. Among several 1989 models that General Motors unveiled last week was the new Buick Riviera, fully 11 in. longer than the 1988 version. The Cadillac division's new Fleetwood and DeVille models are as much as 9 in. longer than last year's cars, and they even sport a discreet version of their old tail fins...
Customers are buying such boaty vehicles because gasoline is relatively cheap, and GM and Ford are determined to satisfy the demand. Even though the cars are more fuel efficient than comparably sized models of the 1960s and early '70s, their tendency to guzzle gas is causing headaches for the two largest U.S. automakers. Last week GM and Ford executives urged federal regulators to modify a fuel-economy law, passed in the energy-crisis year of 1975, that would require 1989 fleets to get an average of 27.5 m.p.g., up from 26 m.p.g. this year. GM is asking for a smaller...
...into progressively larger arenas. Bart holds certain truths to be self-evident. Chief among these is his unfashionable conviction that individualism must cease when it threatens the legitimate, shared concerns of community. This belief is not a late-blooming flower of incipient dotage. As a fledgling professor during the 1960s, Giamatti bore the plumage of the counterculture. His clothes were rumpled, his hair longish; he sported a goatee and an unassuming, downscale, fist-around-a- can-of-beer manner. Students were attracted by this charisma. They enrolled in his courses and came out of them equally entranced by their teacher...
...there is a problem with the swimming ability of Blacks, the limited availability of swimming pools is it. Blacks do not participate in sports such as swimming because of limited access to swimming pools. Up until the 1960s, and even later in some parts of the country, many swimming pools were not open to Blacks. The few pools in Black communities were packed, not a good training ground for a future Olympian...
...rights to the Games, South Korean Olympic officials realized that the rights would be worth more if the country's clocks were moved forward one hour -- thus enabling more daytime events to be seen in prime time in the U.S. Result: last year, for the first time since the 1960s, South Korea instituted daylight saving time...