Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton's strategy, crafted with help from recently departed adviser Dick Morris, is winning back moderates who abandoned the Democratic party during the 1980s...
Controversies, while rare, reflect Harvard's idiosyncrasies. In the mid-1980s, the installation of cable TV generated an uproar because some residents feared the negative impact of shows with racy, sexually explicit images. Even today, Petrin says, "we don't have a high penetration for cable...
...biggest town issue, according to Gilmore, is water quality--a water and sewer system was first installed in the early 1980s. Previously, residents used septic tanks and ground wells. Often, the sewer pumps have failed entirely. "The sewage doesn't flush," Gilmore complains...
There is one connection to the University. In the mid-1980s, someone donated a cast-iron sundial in John Harvard's name; it now sits in Hylton Park--"the Harvard park, we all call it," Gilmore says...
...this the convention's invocation of the spirit of Ronald Reagan and the resurrection of supply-side economic theory, and you get a concoction that is fit only for the 1980s. Times have changed but apparently not the G.O.P. The disastrous effects of 12 years of Reagan and Bush administrations on the economy seem to be easily forgotten. KLAAS B. VAN DER POEL St. Jean de Muzols, France...