Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know too much about Whitewater, although I at first assumed that Bill and Hillary may have been responsible for some shady savings and loan business, like so many other greedy people during the 1980s. However, the Clintons have not been charged with any wrongdoing relating to Whitewater. While they certainly have committed their share of misdeeds in the past, these pale in comparison to Nixon's flagrant domestic and international depravity...
When asked to describe society's image of the ideal woman, adolescent girls in the 1970s placed the greatest emphasis on "thinness," Steiner-Adair said. In the 1980s, girls emphasized athleticism...
People on the street eminently dressed in business suits and carrying briefcases seemed taken aback by the gathering. In their eyes, the 1980s "me decade" was supposed to have thoroughly put to death the days of student activism. What has happened instead is that Newt Gingrich has given student activism a surprisingly sudden resurrection. Thanks, Newt...
...even when financed by federal borrowing, will generate so much economic growth that they will quickly wipe out the deficit. He paints a vision of wealthy investors shifting their money out of T-bills and into new factories and inventions. It may not have worked that way in the 1980s, when top tax rates were slashed and the deficit soared, but that's the reason supply-siders are often described as optimists. Though he generally holds that "the deficit is not our biggest problem" and declines to specify spending he would cut, Forbes has taken to hedging his supply-side...
...know about the death squads. But the Prime Minister has given no indication that he will take Barrionuevo's name off a candidate list for the March 3 national elections. Gonzalez is on the wrong side of public sentiment on the issue of the separtists now. In the 1980s, people were applauding the war, but that has changed and he could suffer because of his support of Barrionuevo." Barrionuevo, who served as interior minister from 1982 to 1998, is accused along with 13 others of funding and directing more than two dozen murders during the 1980s. Now free...