Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...became interested in slowing down light and Bose-Einstein condensates in the late 1980s, while a graduate student at the University of Aarhus in Denmark...
...everyone has believed in Davis' ears. He launched Arista only after being canned by Columbia Records in 1973. By the 1980s, the former lawyer was tasting major success with a diverse group of performers, including Barry Manilow and the Grateful Dead. BMG purchased Arista in 1979, but Davis still operates virtually independently, unusual in an era when big corporations rule music. That might be because he has served the bean counters well too, finding efficient ways to achieve growth. Instead of shelling out millions for outright acquisitions of artists or their production companies, Davis puts money into joint ventures...
...late 1980s, she was one of five American Jews to meet secretly with Palestianian leader Yassir Arafat, helping to restart talks between the U.S. and the Palestinian Liberation Organization that had been stalled for more than a decade...
...today's college students, shows like Thundercats and the Smurfs are almost inseparable from the ad jingles that interspersed the popular cartoons of the mid-1980s...
...biggest movie of 1984 was "E.T.," the highest-grossing film of the 1980s and the fourth highest of all time. Many a senior at one time snuggled into bed along with a stuffed alien...