Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mohammed N. Khan '95, president of the Harvard Islamic Society, says one of the biggest problems facing Muslims in America stems from images of Middle East violence in the 1980s...
When Henrickson took part in his first alleged cash delivery for Clinton in the early 1980s, the captain at the wheel of the Citation II aircraft was Haskell Blake, Henrickson says. "((Blake)) showed me the envelope outside the airplane," maintains Henrickson. "We held it up to the light." But Blake, now an Indianapolis-based pilot, recalls nothing of the sort; "I like Joe, but I don't know where he came up with that," says...
Investment bankers also advise companies involved in mergers and acquisitions. These transactions have acquired a bad reputation because of the buyout frenzy of the 1980s. But they are not, contrary to popular opinion, inherently evil. Many of these transactions, so long as they are properly regulated, can have significant long-term benefits for the economy as a whole...
...gigantic Three Gorges project has inspired awe and opposition ever since it was first proposed 75 years ago by modern China's founding father, Sun Yat- sen. During the 1980s the dam plan became a favorite target of pro- democracy dissidents. It was not until 1992, three years after the critics were brutally silenced in Tiananmen Square, that the communist rulers rammed the project through the National People's Congress. Even today, as construction finally gets rolling, the dam still draws fire from environmentalists around the world. To opponents, it is a symbol of mankind's monstrous interventions in nature...
...plan worked splendidly as long as interest rates continued to fall; that increased the value of the bonds, which move in the opposite direction of interest rates. Throughout the 1980s the Orange County fund raked in returns of more than 9% a year, or nearly double the average earnings of other California investment pools...