Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Herschbach says intramural sports played a large part in uniting the community in the early 1980s...
According to Eryn E. Ament '95, a former Crimson Key member, the film was first shown in the early 1980s once it had "become a classic in the country's eyes and far enough outside the 1970s to be a source of great laughs...
...Coop's successful financial recovery continued throughout the 1970s and 1980s, with the rebate nearing the 1966 level of 10 percent...
...troubled adolescents. At what was once the Tennessee farm of Roots author Alex Haley, the Fund conducts leadership training sessions. And, often in partnership with Junior Leagues, it runs public-education programs throughout the country, exposing business and community leaders to the problems of the young. In the mid-1980s, the Children's Defense Fund helped focus national attention on the problem of teen pregnancy. In the late '80s, it put together a coalition that was instrumental in the 1990 passage of a multibillion-dollar child-care bill for low-income working parents...
...Reversing the trend of ozone depletion is like turning around a huge ocean liner," Lemonick says. "You can reverse the engines, but it still takes a while to change the ship's direction." If this trend is sustained, scientists say the Antarctic ozone hole, first detected in the 1980s, could begin to disappear in about 10 years. -->