Word: 1980s
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...magic of Casey is that he is the ultimate professional in whatever he does ... He enlightens, he explores, he suggests, he provokes, and he informs." - Radio and TV personality Gary Owens, who worked with Kasem in the early 1980s for an annual UNICEF radio drama. (Billboard, April...
Larry Summers, now the top economic adviser in the Obama White House, was a proponent of such taxes in the 1980s and early 1990s. There's no hint of them in the Administration's 88-page white paper on financial regulation. There is talk of higher capital requirements, tougher consumer-protection standards and new rules for derivatives. But taken as a whole, the document sketches a regulatory approach that still relies heavily on judgment and smarts. Maybe it's time for some dumbing down...
...early 1980s, Shonibare returned to England to attend the Wimbledon College of Art, but he had been there only a few weeks when he collapsed one day in class. The cause turned out to be transverse myelitis, an inflammation of the spinal cord, which for a time left him largely paralyzed. Now he can walk again, though with difficulty...
...China blames ongoing unrest in the far-flung province on separatist groups seeking an independent state of East Turkestan. During the 1980s and early '90s, Xinjiang experienced a number of bombings and protests, but it had been quiet up until the time of the Beijing Olympics in August 2008. In the lead-up to the Games and after, separatist groups allegedly staged several fatal attacks on Chinese security forces. Responsibility for two deadly bus bombings in Shanghai and Yunnan province during the same period, meanwhile, was also claimed by a Uighur separatist group, a claim Beijing denies, calling the incidents...
...before Japan's output gap, or economic slack, disappears," says JPMorgan chief economist Masaaki Kanno. "Deflation and high unemployment will last for a long time. The question is whether the economy will continue to grow for several years without having the double dip." (See pictures of Japan in the 1980s and today...