Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...growth is strong, exports are booming, and unemployment is at 8.5%, one of the lowest levels in the E.U. This robust performance is dampened only by a continued weakness in the housing market, which means many erstwhile Tory voters are saddled with burdensome mortgages after the bursting of the 1980s property-market bubble. But despite all the good news--and to Major's unending chagrin--he gets little credit...
...they believed the U.S. must always keep its markets open, whatever its trading partners did--partly out of free-trade principle, partly as a way to reward anticommunist allies. Japan, for its part, grew expert at offering just enough--for example, "voluntary" quotas on auto exports in the early 1980s--to keep the U.S. grumpily mollified, while backing Washington all the way in world diplomacy...
When a new epidemic emerged in the 1980s, AIDS, Salk plunged into the effort to find a vaccine that would prevent people who are already infected with HIV from progressing to the full-blown disease. Though many scientists remain skeptical of Salk's approach, small-scale tests are under...
...1980s, elections for the University's Board of Overseers were often marked by controversy and mudslinging...
...political climate of the late 1980s changed and the South African government began making some improvements in its treatment of Blacks, pressure for divestment subsided and attention shifted elsewhere...