Word: 1980s
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Whether NATO will become the K.L.A.'s armorer remains to be seen. The K.L.A., as U.S. officials are quick to point out, is not going to become a 1990s version of the contras, the U.S.-backed insurgent group that fought to overthrow a communist regime in Nicaragua in the 1980s. For starters, no one wants to use the K.L.A. to overthrow Slobodan Milosevic. And no one wants the war to go on long enough for the K.L.A. to assume contra-like proportions. Most important, however, NATO officials are worried that a well-armed and well-trained K.L.A. would veer into...
...party into the modern era of world-class fund-raising by hitting powerful business interests," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty. "The appointment is surprising because it?s a double-edged sword" that could be used by Gore?s opponents. While Coelho?s modern fund-raising in the 1980s helped rejuvenate the Democratic party, says Tumulty, it also helped launch the massive fund-raising efforts that have since proven prone to scandal. An added detail may also be problematic: Coelho left Congress in 1989 amid an investigation of his personal finances...
...fact remains that Harvard s outbreak is not the first time that RSI has acted out and behaved irrationally. In the early 1980s Australia experienced an RSI pandemic, one which in some places disabled as much as 30 percent of its workforce. In other places, though, it remained unheard of. The incidence rate varied wildly, often among the same professions or even the same company, and no correlation could be found between the repetitiveness of a job or its ergonomics and the number of RSI cases reported. Strangest of all, by 1987, it had virtually disappeared...
NATURAL SELECTION The U.S. Postal Service recently announced that video games and the fall of the Berlin Wall top the list of subjects Americans want on stamps representing the 1980s. Next month people will vote on '90s stamps. We asked ninetysomethings and nine-and-unders for their input. Can you guess who chose what...
According to Crawford, by the early 1980s, Serbs realized that they would soon be an ethnic minority in Kosovo, and throughout Serbia. The shift would have been the result of the growing ethnic Albanian population...