Word: 1980s
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What a difference a decade makes. Mediagenic writers like Jay McInerney and Tama Janowitz once held the limelight with modish novels about fast life in the 1980s. But those authors have now faded into their own material, symbols of the superficialities they exploited in their fiction...
Murmurings of trouble have emanated from the network since the 1980s, when White House reporter Mara Liasson threatened to file a sex-discrimination case against NPR but eventually settled out of court. A 1988 pay-equity study showed that women, even such NPR bright lights as Nina Totenberg and Cokie Roberts, were consistently paid less than men. In 1995 Katie Davis, then a contract reporter for Morning Edition and the temporary host of Weekend All Things Considered, filed a $1.2 million suit charging that the network failed to promote her to a permanent position and paid her less than...
DIED. RICHARD MARSH, 58, veterinary virologist who in the mid-1980s sounded an early warning that bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease, could be spread through feed containing cattle by-products; of cancer; in Middleton, Wisconsin...
LeBow is a reformed smoker, but he is not a reformed capitalist. In the 1980s, for example, LeBow made noise about a possible takeover of cigarette maker American Brands. He lost his resolve but found a profit, making $30 million when he surprised other investors by selling the stock. He made one of his biggest killings early this decade. LeBow had bought the Western Union money-transfer business in 1987, and watched his company sink into bankruptcy in 1991. Then, amazingly enough, he managed to find a buyer for the business a couple of years ago, which allowed...
...avid scuba diver, LeBow has enjoyed the tycoon life-style to the hilt, operating from Florida's millionaire ghetto on Fisher Island. During the late 1980s, he chartered a jet to fly dozens of friends to a multimillion-dollar party in London to celebrate the launch of his private yacht, modeled after Queen Victoria's. He reportedly gave guests gold coins bearing a likeness of himself wearing a Lord Nelson hat. He has sold off some of his lavish baubles in recent years, but his profligate reputation remains a flaw. In the RJR fight, opponents delighted in propagating the slogan...