Word: 1980s
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...ordered a time-out in the bitter brawl between Alabama Republican Governor Guy Hunt and Democratic state attorney general Jimmy Evans. Judge Randall Thomas dropped a dozen theft charges against Hunt for allegedly diverting $200,000 in inaugural and campaign funds to his personal use in the late 1980s, ruling that the indictment came after a three-year state statute of limitations had run out. One ethics charge -- punishable by up to $10,000 and 10 years behind bars -- did beat the clock. On that one count, said the judge, Evans can proceed...
...1980S CHINA'S REFORMIST LEADERSHIP TRIED to keep top posts in the ruling Communist Party separate from those of the government. That campaign reversed a tradition established by no less a figure than Mao Zedong, who served simultaneously as party chief and head of state from 1954 to 1959. Now the pendulum seems headed back toward the direction of double dipping -- and a reconsolidation of official power in party hands...
...River project, a 350-mile canal linking Baghdad with the Shatt al-Arab waterway south of Basra, is intended only to add 1.5 million acres to Iraq's arable land. Arif al-Delaimi, chief engineer on the project, says the southern portion of the canal was completed in the 1980s and the marshes have been drying up ever since. Instead of driving the inhabitants out, he says, the government has been resettling them around artificial lakes. But Andrew Whitley, executive director of Middle East Watch says, "The land under the water is of little agricultural value. The project only makes...
...Cliche goes, "Time is of the essence." In 1993, David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross seems particular untimely. Unless you have a particular fetish for the money and material hustle of the 1980s, this play will be little interest...
...play of greed, corruption, sales, dehumanization, money, and crime. (Sound familiar? It is.) It references the fall of Drexel Burnham Lambert, and Christian Collins's Shelly Levene seems inspired by the Michael Milken saga. Is this yet another latecomer in the formerly fashionable critique of the "excesses of the 1980s," or is it somehow perversely nostalgic for the Glitter Decade? Either way, Glengarry Glen Ross seems unnecessarily dated, if not outright superfluous...