Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some rappers are getting on in years. Just as the Rolling Stones and The Who had to adjust to the arrival of younger generations of rock performers, so have certain rap groups had to face the problem of becoming superannuated. When Public Enemy came along in the mid- 1980s, rap was mostly party music, but the band helped change all that. Their songs were dense and aggressive and carried militant political messages. Public Enemy made rap serious, and sold millions of records in the process. But it has taken the band three years to release a new album...
During the palmy days of the high-rolling 1980s, some Harvard Business School M.B.A. candidates would march into commencement ceremonies waving dollar bills, graphically displaying what they thought their futures held. They have not been doing that in the entrenched and downsized '90s. Now they brandish miniature flags of foreign countries...
...Dillon Professor of International Affairs Joseph S. Nye Jr. Nye has been through this wringer before, as a contender in the 1991 search. A close associate of both former Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 and Carnesale in the Avoiding Nuclear War project in the 1980s, he also has administrative experience as the director of the Center for International Affairs...
...doctor in his late 30s, near the top in his field, despairs of the future. "I was a believer until the late 1980s. Now I am agnostic," he says. His home in the suburbs of Havana is comfortable by comparison with those of most Cubans: the prerevolutionary furniture is carefully preserved, and a 50-year- old refrigerator is stocked with black-market meat bought with dollars sent by relatives in Miami. Although his oven no longer works, he is an expert, like all Cubans, at resolviendo (resolving the problem): he bakes cakes in a pressure cooker...
...probe concluded by his predecessor, Robert Fiske. Meanwhile, the Resolution Trust Corporation requested that a federal court enforce subpoenas for documents relating to Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, a Democrat and heavy borrower from the misbegotten Madison Guaranty S&L for his political campaigns in the early 1980s...