Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even written by the GOP "legislators"; it was penned directly by lawyers and lobbyists who represent various industries and polluters. The proverbial fox guarding the henhouse never had it so good. The Republicans are shamelessly and unapologetically promoting a pro-business agenda that makes the gluttony of the 1980s look like their party's moral pinnacle...
...turns out that in the 1980s Moscow began playing the game just as well, creating yet another scandal for the CIA. The disclosure came last week when the agency delivered to Congress its secret report on the damage CIA mole Aldrich Ames did in spying for the Russians from 1985 to 1994. Not only did Ames send 10 of the CIA's most prized Soviet agents to their death, but his secrets also helped Moscow plant a network of at least a half-dozen double agents, who began slipping both real and bogus information to their CIA handlers. But even...
...Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin. In a slurred speech, Yeltsin explained that he "wasn't feeling too bad" and considered himself "out of danger." But the public-relations ploy did little to allay suspicions about the true state of the President's health. For many Russians, it recalled the early 1980s, when the successive deaths of Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko were all preceded by assurances from the Kremlin that they were in fine fettle...
Throughout the 1980s, Kahane and Kach continually stirred up trouble, and Kahane's election to the Knesset halfway through the decade lent an air of legitimacy to his confrontational, violent tactics. After he had served one term, though, Israel passed legislation outlawing Kach in particular and making it extremely difficult for hate groups to sit in parliament...
...1980s, that university was sued by a company claiming to have rights to a second technology, being developed at the university, that was licensed to a second company...