Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Muldoon, the former chairman of the Joint Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, called Bretton Woods "the most remarkable economic experiment the world had ever seen or has seen since," but added that a new agreement should be tailored to the problems of the '80s...
...furor in Newport over the dilapidation of Mrs. James Jay Coogan's empty mansion on aristocratic Catherine Street turned the spotlight on one of the world's wealthiest recluses: for 25 years Mrs. Coogan, now well into her 80s, has seldom left her Manhattan hotel suite in the daytime, but each night at 9 o'clock she goes down in the freight elevator heavily veiled, drives to her cubbyhole office in a loft building, puts in five hours administering her real-estate fortune (which includes Coogan's Bluff, the Polo Grounds where the Giants play...
...when Jackson must prove to wary Hispanics, women's groups, progressive labor groups, and others that this rainbow coalition is the key to future political power. If it succeeds, against all the known and unforeseen obstacles. The surge of grassroots citizens groups of the '70s may consolidate in the '80s into new local and national coalitions, capable of a class-based realignment of American politics...
...shift at Harvard apparently reflects a national trend of the `80s,the Agency for International Development (AID), the federal government's for foreign assistance, has grown with capital development projects--such is said, dam and hospital building. Instead, in his increasingly favored training programs in areas such as business management as well as grants that bring foreign students to the U.S. to study, says Walter A. Grady, an AID spokesman. "We've shied away from capital developments because we've learned the lesson that they don't really benefit the poor...
...general, the programs have been accepted, and through trial and error. Harvard in the '80s has settled on curricular advice as the export that will best aid developing nations. Despite the University's tendency to be low-key--using individual contacts, and restricting advice to already existing institutions or to short-term seminars--the requests from developing nations keep flooding...