Word: 1980s
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...benefits for employees in the wine-grape, rose and mushroom industries and which has led an important boycott against the table-grape industry for continuing to spray their fields and the nearby neighborhoods with oil-based toxic pesticides. Harvard has participated in the table-grape boycott since the 1980s, and we hope their active participation in that fight will inspire their thinking about the strawberry pickers...
...advanced into the middle class. Union membership, the bedrock Labour constituency, has dropped from 53% in 1980 to 32% in 1994. Many voters who once cast their ballots for Labour on the basis of a tribal instinct to support their similarly situated comrades floated to the Conservatives in the 1980s. But like Clinton, who wooed back the Reagan Democrats, Blair is leading because he is recapturing those Labour voters who strayed to the Tories as their wallets thickened. It is hardly surprising, then, to hear Blair say that he is not "about to press the rewind button and return...
...wait. The packages that give astronomical amounts to CEOs are exactly the deals that critics were clamoring for in the late 1980s. Then the bigwigs were pulling down huge salaries, out of proportion to company results. The solution? Link pay to stock performance. It seems to have worked like a charm. Corporate profits are at a record high, a task that is, after all, the CEO's job. Those lush profits have helped the stock market soar, as anyone with a mutual fund plainly knows. And it is that bull market that has turned millions upon millions of stock options...
Scientists have long known that morphine blunts that chain of pain reactions by preventing the spinal nerves from signaling the brain. But what they didn't know until the late 1980s is that these nerves are more than just glorified gatekeepers. They actually "remember" the body's past travails, causing permanent changes that are recorded in their molecular structure. "Think of the spinal cord as a voice-mail system," says neurobiologist Allan Basbaum of the University of California, San Francisco. "A message comes in and leaves something behind." The longer the injury persists, the more sensitive the spinal nerves become...
When environmentalists decided to finally tackle these issues in the late 1980s, LaFollette said they were labelled as radicals by conservatives who feared that their goals were not only unrealistic but would also jeopardize the country's economic wellbeing...