Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tales often revolve around the story of an evil wizard who can be defeated only by finding his hidden source of power and destroying it. Modern Serbia has no shortage of wicked sorcerers who fit that archetype, and first among them is Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. In the late 1980s Milosevic loosed chaos upon the former Yugoslavia by conjuring up the ghosts of Balkan nationalism. The four years of war that followed dismembered the country, killed some 100,000 civilians and turned the President into an international pariah. Within Serbia, however, his iron rule remained unchallenged--until last November, when...
...ghost from an old "wanted" poster, drops by his table to hurl an unprovoked insult. He's unperturbed. "When I was first brought into the lockup I faced a howling, screaming mob," Keating says matter-of-factly. He points out that unlike other major white-collar felons of the 1980s, who sojourned in comparatively luxurious "Club Feds," he did "hard time." On the inside, he was known as "the old guy" and initially disliked by fellow convicts. "I was locked down for nearly five years, but I survived like a man." Keating even manages some humor on his jailbird days...
With three kids under eight years old, his wife Laura--who met Vinnie at a software company where they worked in the 1980s--says it is now best for her to stay home and raise the children...
...inexplicable connect-disconnect of art and life, the name that probably came to mind for most viewers was Theo Huxtable, the only son, who was played by Malcolm-Jamal Warner in Bill Cosby's tremendously popular 1980s sitcom. For more than a decade the Huxtables were America's first family and Bill Cosby was everyone's dad. It was almost natural, however, to confuse real and imagined identities, for Cosby had modeled his television family on his own: a brilliantly accomplished wife, four assertive daughters and one diffident but charming son. The Huxtables were warm, cuddly, comfortable, now and then...
...position as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee to fund the program. There doesn't seem to be much time for failure. Better technology drove the world catch from 20 million tons in the 1950s to more than 85 million tons by the end of the 1980s, but the harvest has been shrinking throughout this decade. The declines are not simply a result of overfishing, but also of practices that destroy the ocean-floor habitats that feed and protect schools of commercial fish. Factory trawlers scare up schools by dragging heavy chains over the sea bottom, uprooting aquatic plants...