Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican agenda. Each man is privately fascinated with the other, both have relied on consultant Dick Morris, and both can turn shirty on camera if they aren't careful. Lott brings one big advantage to the job that Dole lacked. Because Lott and Gingrich were House backbenchers in the 1980s together, he can give the Speaker advice in a way Dole never could...
...wing. Their analysis is familiar. The candidates most likely to win presidential elections can't get past the conservatives who control the party's nominating processes. So they want to start a centrist think tank and cheering section modeled after the Democratic Leadership Council, the group formed in the 1980s to keep the Democrats from veering left on every issue. "All I want to do is enable the party to get back on course," says five-term New York Representative Amo Houghton, who is promoting the idea...
DIED. MICHAEL BURNETT, 67, longtime criminal and key government informer; of a heart attack; at the U.S. penitentiary in Atlanta. He helped expose major municipal bribery scandals in New York City and Chicago in the 1980s...
...company. In January, Barad will become one of just four women to head a Fortune 1000 company when she succeeds ceo John Amerman, who is retiring. It was Barad, a onetime cosmetics marketer and knowledgeable about the whims of fashion, who rehabilitated Barbie's image in the 1980s, recasting her into a hip toy and a global franchise for the company...
...stated that at the Philadelphia Inquirer, there are fears about lowering the "wall between 'church' and 'state'--the editorial side and the business side"--and as evidence cited the presence of circulation managers at news meetings. What a shock! Circulation staff have been meeting with newsroom personnel since the 1980s, when the editor of the paper was in charge of the circulation department as well as the newsroom. If the wall got lowered, it happened then. You also reported that budget trimming at the Inquirer denied reporters access to telephone directory assistance, long-distance calls and funds to travel...