Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seemingly healthy man walked into a hospital clinic to give blood for a Western-backed study of blood diseases. He walked away and was never heard from again. Doctors analyzed his sample, froze it in a test tube and forgot about it. A quarter-century later, in the mid-1980s, researchers studying the growing AIDS epidemic took a second look at the blood and discovered that it contained HIV, the virus that causes AIDS...
...networks paid $17.6 billion for the right to broadcast National Football League games until 2005, even though viewer ratings have fallen 33% since the 1980s [BUSINESS, Jan. 26]. I don't understand the logic behind that staggering price, but I do know why fewer people are watching the NFL. The networks use, and sometimes even call, time-outs to insert commercials at every conceivable chance. They disrupt the flow of the game by presenting more advertising than action. The new agreement may last until 2005, but by then, will anyone be watching? R. CONRAD STEIN Chicago...
...Wall Street Journal article on the 1980s influx of Vietnamese refugees, Ellen Hume hails the group's uncanny ability to climb the socioeconomic ladder. What explains their success? "The values they come with-- a dedication to family, education and thrift...
...University of Massachusetts system's tuition woes began in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the university had to increase its tuition prices due to state budget troubles...
...room in the club blasts 1980s music, while "camp classic disco" fills another of the club's rooms...