Word: 1980s
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...said he was prompted to run by the plight of the Framingham Eight, eight women who were convicted of killing their abusive loversin the 1980s...
Perhaps the one sport that has attracted the most attention in this wrestling themselves of food and fluids to "make weight" for matches. A survey at a major college wrestling tournament in the late 1980s revealed that 41 percent of wrestlers reported weight fluctuations of between five and nine kilograms every week of the season. While there are obvious short-term advantages to such a practice, weight "cutting" can throw off a wrestler's metabolic rate and can increase his risk of developing cardiovascular disease...
...late 1980s, many kinds of fish were verging on "commercial extinction" -- they were still around, but not in great enough numbers to supply fishing boats. In some cases, countries have agreed on fishing bans until stocks recover. Last February, for example, six nations reached a tentative pact to restrict pollack fishing in an area known as the "doughnut hole," in the international waters of the Bering...
...situation is almost a replay of the battle between environmentalists and Asian nations over the ivory trade, which led to rampant poaching of African elephants during the late 1980s. Fearful that the promises made about tiger parts were as empty as the ones made about ivory, 86 organizations, led by the Earth Island Institute (EIA) and Britain's Tiger Trust, took their case against China and Taiwan to the governing committee of CITES in March 1993. The committee gave the two countries six months to start cracking down on the trade in tiger parts and rhino horn. The deadline...
...self-righteous. And this is an Administration bursting with self-righteousness. The conceit of Clinton's politics is that he and his wife have come with the virtue -- "idealism," it was called then -- of the '60s to redeem us from the "corrupt do-nothing values of the 1980s...