Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wall Street analysts think the company should have a clearer long-term strategy for car development. The main complaint is that Chrysler still bases many of its autos on the same K-car chassis it first used in 1981, and evidently intends to keep doing so until the early 1990s. While that prevents Chrysler from making dramatic engineering changes, the continuity enables the company to keep costs low and quality high. Most of Chrysler's 1986 models were indeed carryover designs from the previous season, but this year the automaker came up with several fresh new vehicles...
...There's an increase in people interested inacademic careers in the arts and sciences. I wouldpresume it's because of all the strongexpectations that the acdemic job market willimprove in the 1990s, by the time these studentsgraduate from PhD. programs," Leape said...
...government of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is planning to replace Britain's fleet of four Polaris nuclear submarines, which will become obsolete in the late 1990s, with larger and faster Trident missile subs at a cost of more than $12 billion. Owen opposes buying the U.S.-built replacements on grounds of cost and excessive dependence on Washington. At their party conference in Harrogate two weeks ago, the Social Democrats called for a coordinated European defense effort, including possible Anglo-French "collaboration" on a joint nuclear deterrent. The Liberal leadership warmly endorsed the resolution, which also urged renunciation of Britain...
Rapidly rising medical costs will prompt health care providers and consumers to become more cost conscious, which will cause major changes in the provision of health care in the 1990s, a group of Harvard experts predicted yesterday at a symposium entitled "Health Care: Opportunities and Burdens...
...bargaining chip." Even that was not enough for some of SDI's most ardent supporters. Just before his speech, eight conservative Congressmen met with Reagan to press him to deploy portions of a space defense as soon as any are ready rather than wait into the 1990s for the full system to be operational. In his later talk, the President in effect said no to that demand also: "I know there are those who are getting a bit antsy, but to deploy systems of limited effectiveness now would deter or divert limited funds and delay our main research." Critics...