Word: 1980s
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Popularity for Hootie & the Blowfish was a long time coming. The four band members-singer Darius Rucker, guitarist Mark Bryan, bassist Dean Felber and drummer Sonefeld-got together at the University of South Carolina in Columbia in the mid-1980s. Rucker likes to sing after taking a shower and, thanks to his loud voice and the dorm's thin walls, his habit became well known-and, surprisingly, well liked. Says Bryan, who lived down the hall: "I'd hear him and think, 'He's got a really great voice.'" Bryan was learning to play the guitar at the time...
...corporate takeovers of the 1980s, the reagan Administration was a wallflower at the orgy. Free-market philosophy discouraged government from interfering in corporate combinations. Capital Cities lapped up ABC. R.J. Reynolds gulped Nabisco. Under George Bush the outlook shifted a bit, but when understaffed government lawyers went to court, they mostly lost. Anne Bingaman, Bill Clinton's chief of antitrust, roared into work promising a different world. As a warning shot she got Congress to fund 61 new antitrust attorneys. At a Washington conference a few weeks ago, she gave the word once again to companies that try to corner...
...have saved the city. With miraculously few scars from the 36,000 tons of U.S. ordnance that fell during the 1972 Christmas bombing, economically backward Vietnam missed the boom that swept the rest of Asia during the 1980s. When the government announced an economic- reform program in 1989, Hanoi stood out as a place with relatively little industry and few cars, clean air and no traffic. Though neglected, architectural gems like the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme Orient and the former Bank of Indochina were resurrectable. ``For anyone interested in architectural questions, Hanoi is where the action is because there...
Over the past 15 years, India has become the world's largest reservoir of live kidney donors. In the 1980s the trade was centered in Bombay, but after a crackdown it spread to other areas, specifically the Madras suburb of Villivakkam, popularly known as ``Kidneyvakkam.'' Several thousand people living in abject poverty in Villivakkam have sold their kidneys. In a typical instance, Rani Saravanan said she had decided to have a kidney removed to obtain cash to feed her family and pay debts...
According to consultants who have studied the D.C. government, Barry increased his base of supporters in the 1980s by expanding government jobs by the thousands and awarding contracts on a no-bid basis. By the time his third term ended with an arrest for cocaine possession, the city was barreling toward financial disaster. When Sharon Pratt Kelly took over in 1991, she inherited a $300 million deficit, and the city had a higher per-capita expenditure than any other American city--$9,516. She did little to improve the situation...