Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...A310, which carries 200 to 255 passengers, is a later model that will compete with Boeing's twin-engined 767, which will be used on short-haul routes in the early '80s. The first A310s are due to begin flying in 1983 for Swissair, which last month signed an order for ten planes. That was a key deal because Swissair has depended heavily on U.S. planes in the past, and Switzerland is not a member of the Airbus group or of the Common Market, and thus was under no visible pressure to buy European...
...armchairs with snowy antimacassars and little tables set for tea. The occupants turned out to be top members of the Chinese Establishment: Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p'ing), Foreign Minister Huang Hua, Vice Premier Fang Yi and Mme. Sun Yatsen, who is in her late 80s. During the intermission, Deng held a reception at which he said in effect that he did not know much about music but he knew what he liked: anything that promoted friendship. After the concert, he led his tea party to the stage and shook hands with orchestra members...
Some feel that the issue of children's rights will become the civil rights movement of the '80s. It's doubtful, since until they are allowed to vote (admittedly a problematic notion), they will never have a full and equal participation on the political process. This simple fact, however, has not prevented will-meaners and not-so-well-meaners from trying to frame a progressive child social welfare policy...
South American writers like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriela Mistral. Jailed briefly in 1953 for speaking out against the Perón regime, Essayist-Translator Ocampo continued to edit and finance the magazine throughout her 80s...
Even if all these strategies were adopted overnight, speeding up productivity might well take a discouragingly long time. The '70s lag in investment and R. and D., in particular, will go on harming productivity well into the '80s. But the effort must be started. A long period of sluggish productivity would mean an era of slow growth, little or no rise in living standards, persistent unemployment and high inflation?just like the '70s, only worse...