Word: 1980s
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...live without electricity or running water. On the 1.4 acres of Montana woodland that he bought with David in 1971, Ted spent whole winters living on dried root vegetables, some rice and flour and the snowshoe hares he tracked down with his .22-cal. rifle. In the early 1980s, David headed for the desolate Christmas Mountains of West Texas. The cabin he has used for part of each year stands 20 miles from the nearest paved road. Before it was finished, he hunkered down for a while in just a hole dug in the ground. To keep out what little...
...early 1980s, David made his own move into the wild. For a pittance he bought a 30-acre spread at Terlingua Ranch, a grandly named stretch of bare-bones, no-nonsense privacy among the mesquite and greasewood of the Chihuahuan desert, where lizards and diamondback rattlers are the nearest neighbors. To a few friends, he was even known jokingly as "Henry David"--as in Henry David Thoreau, the literary patron saint of nature lovers and solitary souls. He took a passionate stand against paving the two-lane road into Terlingua Ranch. "We both worried about the destruction of mankind from...
...that had begun to seem a good thing. Government investigators believe Kaczynski took buses from Lincoln to Helena to Butte, Montana, where he could have connected to Salt Lake City, Utah--the origin of several of the bomber's 1980s strikes--or to Sacramento, California, and the San Francisco Bay Area, from which four 1990s bombs were sent. But pinpointing his presence in those destinations was tougher. Despite his family's statements that Kaczynski lived in Salt Lake City in the early 1970s, checks with motels and blood banks have failed to turn up any record of him there...
Five years ago, Japan could look back on three decades of extraordinary accomplishment. Its economy had grown an average of 6.5% a year. By the 1980s, it had come to dominate the market for consumer electronics and semiconductors, and claimed the best automakers in the world. In the U.S., Japanese companies seemed to be buying everything in sight, from Rockefeller Center to Universal Studios. Over and over again, the question was asked in other countries, particularly the U.S.--What is Japan's secret...
Adiele described her own experiences as a student activist at Harvard in the mid-1980s and the problems faced by the organizations of which she was a member...