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...praise for his management of the city, putting an end to recurring subway strikes and creating a new green space in the center of town by uncovering a formerly paved-over river. But he has also had to apologize for faking his address in the 1980s to get his children into better school districts, and is accused of avoiding taxes by improperly registering his children as managers of a building he owns. In 1998, he was forced to step down as a member of parliament after being convicted of illegal campaign financing...
...Divestment advocates claim that the South Africa divestment campaign of the 1970s and 1980s played a major role in ending apartheid. There is no empirical evidence, however, for this claim. A 1999 study in the Journal of Business found that the boycott had almost no impact on financial markets or corporations in South Africa. In addition, global capital markets are significantly more liquid than they were in the 1980s, so even short-term effects of divestment will revert more quickly...
...Europe itself is not a big arms customer. The real hunger lies in oil-rich and third-world countries eager to modernize their armies. Unlike the 1980s, when France nurtured military ties with African governments - selling massive arms systems in return for political backing - France has few natural allies to whom to sell weapons. Two months ago Morocco - France's former colony and close neighbor - rejected the Rafale and instead bought Lockheed Martin's F-16 fighter jet, which has seen years of combat, including in Afghanistan and Iraq. "Even the French Air Force hasn't bought all the Rafale...
...stem-cell transplant to rebuild the immune system) after surgery does not extend the life of breast-cancer patients. The new findings, which come after a thorough analysis of 15 trials involving 6,200 patients, should close the book on a controversial treatment that was popular during the 1980s and 1990s. At the time, doctors believed that more was better when it came to chemotherapy following cancer surgery: While it was painful for patients, oncologists thought ramping up chemo would ultimately benefit patients by destroying any cancer cells that had eluded the surgeon's knife...
...deemed the “100-to-1” rule, federal guidelines suggested a 10-year sentence for possession of 5,000 grams of powder cocaine and the same sentence for possession of 50 grams of the drug in crack form. These guidelines were first crafted in the 1980s: While the social climate of the period—in which crack was seen as a unique and devastating contributor to crime, violence, and urban decay—may help to explain such disparate punishments, it hardly justifies them. Though few today see crack cocaine as a more dangerous threat...