Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eros and 40 energetic staff members have created an appetite for controversy in the Indonesian reading public that will not be easily slaked. "DeTik's young journalists have captured a mood," comments Aristides Katoppo, a publishing consultant whose own newspaper was shut down during a purge in the 1980s. "They have a different vision of what society looks like. They aren't corrupted. They are articulating issues that need to be articulated. The undercurrents are not undercurrents anymore." Says founder- editor Eros: "If you were Indonesian, you would understand why we needed DeTik. Look at the front page...
...jacked-up charges have indeed helped banks rebound from the late 1980s and early 1990s, when sour real estate loans severely depressed industry earnings. Bank profits reached a record $43.4 billion last year, easily topping the previous peak of $32.1 billion in 1992, at least in part because of banks' growing reliance on service charges for income. Fees rose from just under 25% of banking income in 1984 to nearly one-third in 1992, according to the Consumer Federation of America. On top of that, lenders have enriched themselves by keeping a large spread between the cost they pay depositors...
...Village Voice in New York. In 1981 he started Washingtoon in the Voice and the Washington Post, which eventually syndicated the strip nationally. He has since published two book-length collections of Washingtoon and has seen it become the basis for a cable-TV series in the 1980s...
...those of us who knew his work, Mario Vargas Llosa's campaign in the late 1980s for the presidency of his native Peru seemed to be a quixotic enterprise. Here was the acclaimed author of such works as The Time of the Hero and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter immersing himself in the rococo poltics of a country embattled by stratospheric inflation, pervasive corruption, severe ethnic tensions and a murderous band of Maoists known as the Shining Path. Most of Vargas Llosa's readers sighed happily when he finally lost in June 1990 to Alberto Fujimori...
Coming into this season, the Crimson's expressed goal was so clear that, if it had been the late-1980s, it might shaved onto the side of every sprinter's head: to win the regular season league championship and then to take Easterns...