Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brooks, who started thinking about becoming a priest in the early 1980s, finally made the switch this fall, enrolling at an Episcopal seminary in Cambridge...
...Khan's business empire began to wobble in the late 1980s when the Ciga hotel group embarked on a spectacularly ill-timed expansion. The goal was to build on its world-famous string of $400-a-night hotels such as the Grand in Rome and the Danieli in Venice. Just as the global economy was about to falter, Prince Karim began piling up debt to pay for costly renovations and the purchase of more than a dozen new hostelries, including the Palace in Madrid. Banks remained eager to put up the money because Ciga could pledge real estate worth more...
...many as 1,000 Canadians, most of them hemophiliacs, may have got blood transfusions tainted with the AIDS virus in the 1980s, according to a Canadian government report. Many remain unaware of the contamination...
...broad-based family entertainment." Among their offerings: Valerie Bertinelli as a divorce living in Paris (Cafe Americain); a high-school coach and his family in Texas (Against the Grain); and a rotating series of mystery movies starring such TV veterans as Kenny Rogers, Larry Hagman and (reprising their early 1980s series Hart to Hart) Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers...
Peter Svenson's Battlefield fulfills its image in the preface as "one small niche of Americana, peopled with real individuals and placed in a real setting." Splitting his narrative between the 1860s and 1980s, with several historical stops along the way, Svenson creates a personal and historical reflection. He tells essentially two stories while uniting them behind one central idea. Battlefield reminds us that real history exists beneath the "polemics." It may not put Cross Keys on the popular map of American History, but it does restore a sense of that history as a continuum of past, present and future...