Word: 1980s
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...brothers built a cable empire that they finally sold in 1987 to Jack Kent Cooke for $755 million. The McCaws had switched their focus to cellular, becoming initial bidders for cellular-telephone licenses after the Federal Communications Commission opened up that business to competition in the early 1980s. McCaw's big break came in 1986, when the company acquired the cellular business of MCI for $120 million. A year later, it bought the Washington Post Co.'s cellular business in Miami for $240 million. By 1988, McCaw was the largest cellular-telephone operator in the country, with 132,000 subscribers...
Then in the early 1980s, almost all forms of crime began to decline for a while. The baby boom got old, so the baby boomers were no longer in the crime- prone years. We saw this in declining public-school enrollments. Now, however, if you look at what's happening in elementary schools, enrollments are going up because the children of baby boomers are starting to move through the cycle. My guess -- and the guess of many other criminologists -- is that by the end of this decade we will see an increase in the general crime rate regardless of what...
...charged in a lawsuit that Haft had cheated him out of investments in the family's drugstore chain. When Haft's brother Leonard sided with the brother- in-law, Herbert broke off relations with Leonard for 15 years. Herbert made frequent use of his toughness in the 1980s, when he and Robert mounted campaigns to take over such retailing giants as Dayton Hudson and Safeway Foods. While the Hafts never purchased those behemoths, they walked off with fat profits after takeover fever jacked up the price of the target companies' shares...
Throughout the 1980s, Hizballah had a dark reputation; it was notorious for seizing Western hostages, setting off car bombs and nurturing groups like Islamic Jihad, which blew up the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. But it sought Arab approval by deploying its thousands of fighters to harass Israeli troops occupying southern Lebanon...
Political fashions drift from left to right. The enthusiastic sectarian style of American communists during the 1930s and 1940s traveled with the neoconservatives when they washed ashore as immigrants to the land of conservatism during the 1970s and 1980s. The rallying cry of race-blind equal opportunity, which was of little interest to right-wingers during the heyday of the civil rights movement, was later taken as the right's own in the struggle over affirmative action. And now, having spent recent years diagnosing a virus of democracy they label "political correctness," some conservatives seem to be succumbing themselves...