Word: 1980s
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...seems like extraordinary weather this year may actually be a return to conditions that seemed quite ordinary only a few years -- or a few decades -- earlier. The heavy precipitation that fell in the West last Christmas, for example, seemed like a return to the rainy winters of the early 1980s, before the recent drought set in. Similarly, hurricanes like Andrew may hark back to the storms that lashed the East Coast in the 1940s and '50s. As strange as the weather may seem this week, it hasn't produced anything like the tale of the tornado that traveled over...
...postmodern building that houses AT&T's microelectronics division is obscured from view by the thick forests of suburban New Jersey, and to some it once seemed an apt metaphor: for much of the 1980s, the unit was really lost in the woods. It was expected to lead AT&T's charge into the computer business, but its microchips sold poorly because they were overpriced, and the company's first commercial computers -- from PCs to a midsize system -- were flops. With losses topping $3 billion, AT&T was forced to pull back from the market. Says William Warwick, president...
...this week's ruling by Tennessee Judge Thomas A. Wiseman Jr., who was investigating Ryan, a former Justice Department attorney, for allegedly suppressing evidence in the denaturalization trial of an alleged Nazi death camp guard in the early 1980s, gives a public boost to the Harvard lawyer's reputation for integrity...
...said the likely result will be something between the traditional, fiercely competitive, stand-alone model of the 1980s, where each hospital offered a full array of services, and the formation of a single mega-hospital...
Brock picks apart the testimony of Susan Hoerchner, a law-school friend of Hill's who remained in close touch when the two lived in Washington in the early 1980s. Hoerchner became one of Hill's corroborating witnesses when she told the fbi that in a phone call in the spring of 1981 Hill had complained to her of being harassed by her supervisor. Brock notes with pleasure that Hill did not start work with Thomas at the Department of Education until September 1981, so she could not have complained about Thomas in the spring...