Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Braniff's plight was worse than that of most U.S. airlines. Nearly all were ravaged in the late 1970s and early '80s by problems ranging from rising fuel costs to competition from upstart cut-rate carriers. Under the brash leadership of former Chairman Harding Lawrence, Braniff began to add planes and expand routes just as the economy was dropping into recession and oil prices were heading for another sharp increase...
...largely unnoticed facts about current art is that despite the hoopla made over some national groups of painters-mainly German and Italian-a great deal of the most inventive and solid painting in the '80s keeps being done by the English. One thinks immediately of Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin or half a dozen others. And among them, prominently, one thinks of Malcolm Morley. Morley is 52. His first retrospective-curated by Nicholas Serota, director of London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, and handsomely introduced by Art Historian Michael Compton-has spent the past year touring from Basel to London...
...jobs traditionally held by women to eliminate disparities in the earnings of men and women would cost some $320 billion in added annual wages and increase inflation 10%. These figures show the inequities women continue to face. They also show why comparable worth is the issue of the '80s. not only for women but for all society...
...this year, though, for Jungle Belles--a musical about "the real women of the '80s"--is one of the strongest Pudding shows in recent years, an extravaganza which delivers all the traditional payoffs and even manages to add some new spices to the recipe...
During the late 1970s and into the 80s the demand for student loans exploded largely because of the rising cost of higher education and a 1978 government decision onto make GSLs available to any student on very generous terms...