Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Watch a giant takeover brawl unfold before your eyes! Marvel at the clash of colossal egos! Gasp at the gyrating stock prices! Not since the 1980s has Wall Street so unabashedly savored a fight as it did the one that broke out last week for filmmaker Paramount Communications. With a bid from Viacom Inc. valued at $7.5 billion already on the table, QVC shopping-network chairman Barry Diller unveiled a staggering $9.5 billion counteroffer. Paramount stockholders could almost be heard sighing at the thought of their potential profits. In a counterassault with personal overtones, Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone fired back...
According to a report by the Population Reference Bureau, 1 in 5 preschoolers - now has a father as primary care giver, up from the 15% figure that was constant from 1965 until the late 1980s. One reason is that more fathers are working part time...
...idea of a University-wide data network goesback to the mid-1980s, when the Office forInformation Technology (OIT) decided to run twosets of wires to each room on campus. One of thewires is used for telephone connection, and theother used for data...
Edward J. Boudro, who has lived four doors downfrom the Whalens for eight years, said he haswitnessed an increase in crime in the neighborhoodsince the installation of the Davis Square MBTAstop in the 1980s...
...Hollywood-Silicon Valley connection goes back to the early 1980s, when movie companies and video-game makers found it mutually convenient to license cartoon and film characters (usually for a modest 5% to 10% of net sales) for use in video games. At one point Atari had deals lined up to make video games out of Peanuts, Mickey Mouse and the Muppets. Then in 1982 Atari licensed E.T. for $23 million and proceeded to turn it into one of the worst video games ever made. The resulting disaster, known in the industry as "the crash of 1984," brought Atari into...