Word: 1980s
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Bowing to the district's large Haitian constituency, Kennedy led the attempt to restore that nation's exiled president, Jean-Bertrand Aristede, to power in the 1980s, O'Connor said...
There is, in addition, growing evidence that the level of labor market discrimination faced by African-Americans rose during the 1980s. Contrary to much popular perception, the Reagan-Bush years of assault on affirmative action and other aspects of civil rights enforcement were also an era when young college-educated blacks lost ground relative to whites. This is true both for earnings and for prospects of employment. Yet this was a time of narrowing black-white gaps in skill and achievement. I am persuaded by political economist Martin Carnoy's claim in his important book Faded Dreams, that Reagan-Bush...
...goal is to determine whether anyone induced them to cover up for the President. The six were deposed by attorneys for Paula Jones as part of Jones' lawsuit against Clinton. Five of them have been responding to rumors that they had been involved with Clinton since the early 1980s. The sixth is Shelia Lawrence, widow of M. Larry Lawrence, the former U.S. ambassador to Switzerland whose body was removed last month from Arlington National Cemetery. Lawrence, who was rumored to have had an affair with Clinton during the 1992 campaign, has stated publicly that in her deposition to the Jones...
DIED. PATRICK CLARK, 42, pioneer of all sorts: first as a chef whose embrace of French cooking in the 1980s left patrons and rivals sighing, "Merveilleux!"; then as a parent of 1990s American nouvelle cuisine boom; and, as head chef at such to-die-for spots as Odeon and Cafe Luxembourg, one of the first blacks donning the top toque; of a heart attack; in Princeton...
...late 1980s, a group of Harvard womendecided they wanted a female version of theall-male final clubs already on campus. Deborah E.Lipson '95, a former Bee president, says aRadcliffe alum told the budding organization ofthe Civil War group and the 14 founding membersadopted the name...