Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crime begins scaring off visitors, it could kill the golden goose," warns Loyola University political scientist Ed Renwick. An equal concern is that crime and decay are impeding the effort to attract new business, which is vitally needed to replace thousands of energy-industry jobs lost in the 1980s oil bust...
...Last spring the President ordered three members of his Cabinet to study the problem and propose bold solutions. Last week they did, in a private report to the White House that concluded that the nation's homeless population may have totaled as many as 7 million in the late 1980s -- far higher than any current estimate. The report, signed by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, Health and Human Services' Donna Shalala and Veterans Affairs chief Jesse Brown, proposed spending large new sums on subsidized housing, mental health and other programs...
...late 1980s, however, the empire built in the earthquake country of the San Fernando Valley was shaken by management decisions and a sagging real estate market. Four years ago, several of Epstein's businesses crumbled...
Following World War II, an "us vs. them" mentality developed in all facets of life which lingered well into the 1980s. Everything was a competition, and stereotypes were abundant...
This flirtation of Black student organizations at elite colleges with the venomous forms of ethnocentric Black populism associated with the Nation of Islam is, unfortunately, not new. Since the middle 1980s, intellectually infantile clusters of African-American students at Princeton University, Rutgers University, the University of Massachusetts--Amherst, etc., have with such invitations thumbed their noses at the humanistic civil rights tradition--a tradition honed by the best of African-American leadership, like Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Benjamin Mays, Horace Mann Bond, James Weldon Johnson, A. Phillip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, to name just...