Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...costs. Those are what allow a company to keep prices down, provide better service, win business and keep profits up--the favored recipe for large-scale corporate survival in the global, capitalist '90s and a prime driver of the record $919 billion in mergers last year. By comparison, the 1980s (when the press screamed about "merger mania") were strictly peewee league. The biggest single year of deals in the greed decade was 1988, with $353 billion...
...those demands in the late 1980s that made University of Pittsburgh surgeon Dr. Bernard Fisher and others take a second look at tamoxifen, which had been in use for a decade as a milder alternative to chemotherapy for treating breast cancer. They noticed that it not only helped keep cancer from returning in the affected breast but also cut in half the number of new cancers in the other breast. Animal studies suggested that tamoxifen latches on to receptors in breast-cancer cells that would ordinarily take up the hormone estrogen--a substance known to fuel the growth of cancer...
DIED. ARCHBISHOP SERAPHIM, 84, stormy head of the Greek Orthodox Church since 1974 who boldly crusaded against the state in the 1980s, excommunicating seven government officials for trying to expropriate the church's vast land holdings; in Athens...
...premise behind this vision of Pericles, whose framing device--a basketball court infested by pre-adolescents--sets the stage for the play's ruling aesthetic: a massive, hallucinatory flashback to middle school. The "players," a group of kids whose dress and language evoke a sort of archetypal, semi-mythical 1980s Experience, are unwillingly pressed into service as actors by a terrifying bag lady (Gower, the play's narrator, here played with an alarming intensity by Jessamyn Conrad '00). Since they retain their eighth-grade personalities, the romancing and sexual innuendo of the first half of the play is spiced...
...loss.) Still, everyone gets an A for effort. David Egan '00 is a sincere and entertainingly histrionic Pericles; Erin Billings '00, doubling in the major women's roles as Pericles's wife Thaisa and his daughter Marina, splits her personality neatly between a shudderingly silly and endearing pre-adolescent 1980s chick in the former role ("Wow! She's, like, the cutest thing since Safari-Style Barbie!" confides the love-struck Pericles to the audience) and the more serious one of the frightened virgin Marina in the latter...