Word: 1980s
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...temptation to blame the plane comes largely from a confusion between experimental aircraft and ultralight planes. Both became hugely popular in the mid-1980s after a series of product-liability lawsuits drove the makers of conventional small planes--Piper Cubs, Cessna 150s and other single-engine aircraft--to the brink of bankruptcy and, in some cases, over...
...transformation devastated Baltimore's schools--a result not of the change in color but of the poverty that came with it. By the 1980s, even the black middle class had begun leaving the city. Declining enrollment and an accelerating middle-class flight distilled the city's school population to the point where today more than 70% of students qualify for a free lunch, a standard marker of poverty. Nearly 35% of the city's pupils are absent more than 20 days a year, triple the rate in suburban Baltimore County. Fewer than half the city's ninth-graders passed...
Limerick, who served on the Student Affairs committee in the early 1980s, says she was most disturbed by these phantoms who "had all the faculty resources of Harvard available to them but did not make anything of that opportunity...
With regard to our recent national history, Boogie Nights is, again, right on the money. Our collective capacity to learn a moral lesson is non-existent. The flesh, drugs and rock and roll of the 1970s gave way to the rape erotica, harder drugs and Boy George of the 1980s. When we hit rock bottom, rather than mend our ways, we opted to re-define some terms. Redemption was no longer associated with reformation. It came free with apology. Broken families were simply replaced by a new definition of family. For those who left their wives and children penniless...
Despite previous reports that the University did not begin investing the GOA until the 1980s, Huidekoper said the University began investing the funds around the time the account was started in the 1970s...