Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...health officials to identify Williams as a sexual predator. In August, health commissioner Robert Berke found he had a sixth case in five months of a young girl who tested positive for HIV. The county had recorded only 50 AIDS cases since the disease began to spread in the 1980s. Although Williams used 18 aliases, including names such as Face and JoJo, caseworkers went back to the six women and eventually figured out that they'd all had sex with the same man. Because of confidentiality laws in New York designed to protect people with HIV, Berke...
...supplement has been more battered by conflicting reports than beta-carotene, a vitamin found in fruits, carrots, spinach and other dark green leafy vegetables. Studies in the 1980s showed that people who consume a lot of beta-carotene-rich foods have a marked decrease in their risk of cancer. Those studies set off a beta-carotene craze and created a huge market for beta-carotene supplements. It wasn't until the late 1980s that researchers from Finland and the U.S. decided to test the proposition that beta-carotene in pill form could protect smokers from cancer. The results were...
...gases 8% faster than they were in 1990. A Department of Energy study released last week showed that emissions jumped 3.4% in 1996 alone. At the same time, evidence of global warming's dangers has continued to mount. When politicians started talking seriously about the problem in the late 1980s, the relationship between the proliferation of carbon dioxide and a warming world was largely theoretical. Scientists knew that CO2 and other gases trap the sun's energy; in fact, without any CO2 at all in the atmosphere, the planet would be frozen solid. The notion that extra, human-generated...
...secret of his longevity rests in his musical roots. He cut his teeth in the early 1980s, when rap was still largely playful entertainment--an intricate mix of bare rhythms, verbal acrobatics and sharp humor. As rap's agenda grew more urgent--the thundering political nationalism of Public Enemy, the corrosive social critiques of gangsta rappers like N.W.A.--LL continued to build his career on the genre's original foundations. The approach worked. Since his first record, I Need A Beat, appeared in 1984, five of his subsequent seven albums have gone platinum...
...1970s, when students filled in endless phonics work sheets and read inane basals, and teachers felt overly controlled, whole language exercised a strong attraction. By the 1980s, it had come to dominate the teachers colleges and was strongly influencing publishers. Chall argues that the shift from a code emphasis to a meaning emphasis hurt reading scores. Citing National Assessment of Educational Progress data, she has written, "[F]rom 1971 to 1980 there was a steady improvement in the reading comprehension of nine-year-olds. However, during the 1980s...the scores did not improve and rather declined...