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Starting in the mid-1980s, every Harvard undergraduate had an account that they could use to e-mail or transfer files anywhere in the world. Harvard was part of the Unix-to-Unix Copy network, which allowed for digital data transmission practically in real time. Data transfer could take a full day, depending on how far it needed to travel...
...victim to political pressures of all types, the Federal Reserve does what is right for the stability of our economy, be it the case of former Chairman Paul Volcker’s raising of interest rates to historically high levels in order to cut inflation in the early 1980s, or Chairman Ben Bernanke ’75’s opening up of lending windows to major investment banks during the financial crisis, despite the deep political unpopularity of such measures. By opening up the Federal Reserve’s operations to naked populist critiques, the Sanders amendment begins...
After a long period of decline, TB incidence has risen dramatically since the 1980s, despite the improvement of sanitary conditions, the development of anti-TB drugs in the 1950s, and the introduction of the World Health Organization’s directly-observed treatment short-course program for more effective treatment. In 1993, the WHO declared TB a global-health emergency, setting ambitious goals which it later conceded could not be met by 2003 or possibly even 2015. That is to say, the consequences from the years of inadequate treatment and low attention to disease control in resource-poor regions have...
McLaren went on to have successes with Adam and the Ants and Bow Wow Wow before ditching the bands entirely and becoming the true talent behind his own hip-hop- and opera-inspired pop tunes as well as a dozen other songs throughout the 1980s...
Chrisler noted that over 80 percent of LGBT Americans expect to get married and have children—“a dramatic shift” from the 45 percent of lesbian women who planned to have children in the 1980s...