Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early 1980s, there was quite a lot of opposition to the idea of a women's studies concentration, according to Suleiman...
...built around an industrial policy in which politicians, bureaucrats and corporate chieftains orchestrated every regulation, first in order to catch up with the West and later to keep themselves entrenched. But politics and the bureaucracy never got to evolve. When success brought on the frenzied speculating of the late 1980s, the ruling establishment covered one another's bets. In 1992 the bubble burst, the Nikkei stock index lost more than half its value, and Japan plunged into recession. The Liberal Democrats lost their grasp on power, returning a year later in coalitions. "The old corrupt system fell apart," says Taizo...
...Under instructions from parent company Knight-Ridder to boost its margins from 16% to 18%, the Miami Herald will cut 300 jobs by the end of this year. Once considered a competitor of the New York Times and the Washington Post and famed for winning seven Pulitzers in the 1980s alone, the Herald has responded by shifting its focus to regional coverage and "news...
...good enough. Tony Ridder, CEO of Knight-Ridder's 17-paper empire, explains that he must answer to many masters. "I've got a number of constituencies: the customers, the communities in which we do business, and I've got the shareholders." And some shareholders remember the boom-boom 1980s, when newspaper profit margins routinely approached 20%. Cold reality hit along with the recession in the early 1990s: retailing, then retail advertising, then newspapers dependent on such advertising suffered, and profits fell. Ridder insists that the financial pressures on all papers tend to be cyclical and that in fact Knight...
According to Boulton, in the late 1980s a feeling pervaded environmentalism that it had accomplished all its goals, even though there was more work to be done. As a result, the movement suffered a drop-off in action, he says...