Word: 1980s
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Perhaps never has the mood of a decade reversed itself so totally. The 1980s began with the worst U.S. inflation in 60 years and a deepening dread of nuclear annihilation. As they closed, inflation was making a last and unsuccessful assault on an economy that had found new resources, the Berlin Wall was tumbling down, and the Soviet empire was dissolving. The cold war was over--and the West...
...waning months of the 1980s, a Sovietologist named Francis Fukuyama published a provocative essay called "The End of History?" Fukuyama's thesis--that the collapse of the Soviet Union meant people would have nothing more to fight wars about--was soon disproved. The 1990s have not been short on history. The end of the cold war defrosted earlier rivalries that had been frozen for two generations, bringing bloody history back to places like Bosnia, where it had been in cold storage...
...Brown, Cornell and several flagship state universities all graduate relatively larger proportions of future women scientists and engineers, so it can indeed be done without loss of quality. These figures are based on Ph.D.s granted between 1991 and 1995, and thus refer back to college graduates of the late 1980s, when Harvard's proportion of women was about 2 percent smaller than it is currently and many comparable institutions also had smaller numbers of women students. As a general rule, however, the most selective institutions usually have higher proportions of women science students than the average...
Back when Bob Barker still had black hair, families were feuding, and whammies were a menace to society, game shows ruled the television screen. During the golden years of gaming in the 1970s and early 1980s, millions of degenerate adults and sick schoolchildren could spend their days on the couch in the living room, watching non-stop game shows on the three major networks from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Sadly, many feel that today's shows fall short of capturing that tacky flair so critical to the classic game show experience...
...episodes with celebrity participants. In recent years, "Jeopardy," Family Feud," and "Wheel of Fortune" have opened their games to famous actors and professional athletes. This trend is something of a takeoff on the regular appearances of second-rate stars on "Hollywood Squares" and "The $25,000 Pyramid" in the 1980s. However, possibly due to increased studio funding, the guest contestants on today's shows are certainly more credible than "Hollywood Squares" staples Jim J. Bullock, Louie Anderson, and Shadoe Stevens...