Word: 1980s
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Many of the fantastic visions about computers and technology from the early 1980s have remained simply fantasies, the stuff of imagination deferred...
Early in his career he worked at Toga Lounge and As You Like It. In the 1980s, he worked at Tommy's Lunch (now Tommy's New York-Style Pizza) concurrently with his job at the Tasty...
...planned community between Baltimore and Washington, should have started to feel a little quiet. After all, Tripp had traveled the world for years with Bruce, a lieutenant colonel in the Army. Fluent in German, she had arranged visits for Congressmen around Allied headquarters in Europe, and in the late 1980s she held a classified job with the Army's elite Delta Force. In a man's world, she had learned to play rough. "A hard lady," recalls an officer who knew her at Delta Force. "And not much of a lady, either...
...allegiances changed--Goldberg's spying on behalf of the 1972 Nixon re-election effort has been widely reported--and she left politics for the more lucrative world of publishing. It was no less a shark tank: tell-all biographer Kitty Kelley, a former client, sued Goldberg in the early 1980s for fraud and other infractions in connection with Kelley's biography of Elizabeth Taylor. Although a judge overturned the fraud portion of the jury verdict against Goldberg, he awarded Kelley $41,000 in damages and costs...
...1960s, people's aspiration was to have a bicycle. Now [after the economic reforms of the 1980s], their aspiration is to have a motorped, a car," she says. "[But] you drive down the countryside and realize that the people don't know that they have to get out of the way of cars...