Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...script for ER had been sitting in Crichton's trunk since 1974, when the former Harvard medical student wrote it as a movie screenplay. It languished until the late 1980s, when Steven Spielberg read it and got interested. But Spielberg was more interested in another Crichton project -- Jurassic Park -- and ER sat around for a few more years, until someone at Spielberg's Amblin Productions suggested turning it into a TV pilot. "Almost nothing was changed," says Crichton, "except cleaning up the language...
...late 1980s a sweet series of Indian triumphs had some bitter by- products. Some recognized tribes won the right to run high-stakes gambling, regardless of prohibitions in bordering states. The result: a handful became fabulously rich, and needed income began to flow to some other poor reservations. But friction increased between recognized and unrecognized tribes...
Paolillo was charged in connection with a 1980s real estate deal involving embattled Cambridge City Councillor William H. Walsh...
...embattled Prudential Securities brokerage firm was charged today in New York with misleading 100,000 investors about its sales of $1.4 billion in risky oil and gas limited partnerships during the 1980s. But federal prosecutors, as expected, agreed to set the charges aside for three years if the company fulfils various obligations, including doubling a $330 million fund set up to reimburse investors. The upshot: a long criminal probe is now officially closed...
...focusing its editorial so closely on Counter, the staff misses the larger point. Minority students--like minority workers and minority faculty--have legitimate beefs about how Harvard treats them and their concerns. In the divestment movement of the 1980s, in the push for ethnic studies, in the concern over Harvard police treatment of Black students, the University has for years followed the same strategy for dealing with objections raised by minorities: tell them you care, and them wait them out, until they graduate or find jobs elsewhere...