Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Epps helped coordinate the clubs' annual punch season for years, in the early 1980s he became increasingly concerned with their refusal to admit women and what he perceived as irresponsibility regarding alcohol...
...killing of the same victim. For years Starr has been putting the squeeze on Hubbell in the hope of getting him to give up something about either the President or Hillary Clinton, who was Hubbell's law partner at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Ark., in the 1980s. Hubbell has already served 18 months in prison after pleading guilty four years ago to charges that he cheated his law partners at Rose. No sooner was Hubbell free than Starr indicted him again earlier this year on tax-evasion charges. Two months later those were dismissed by a federal...
Through the 1980s, Capuano made a name for himself among his constituents in Somerville and Democrats throughout the state...
Indeed, Bennahum describes how the social and familial element of computers took off in the early 1980s, a movement similar to how the Internet and email have revolutionized communication in the 1990s. Underground BBSes (bulletin board systems), which were most times run by people out of their homes, contained illegal software to download. The precious phone numbers of these BBSes were passed around among friends in a sort of Underground Railroad of computer users. His high school computer lab was a close-knit community where more experienced users shared their knowledge with younger users eager to soak up their expertise...
...snapshot and a chronicle of the technological revolution of the 1980s, Extra Life does a magnificent job. In today's high-powered, electronically driven world, it's hard to fathom a time when a dual 5-1/2" floppy disk drive was a luxury. But Bennahum takes us back to the good old days of home technology, when a simple game with plumbers from Brooklyn captivated a nation and ushered in a new era of living. Game over? Not hardly, when there's always the opportunity for an extra life...