Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Underpinning the entire '60s-'80s contract is undergraduate adaptation to life within the modern university. Students 20 years ago felt genuinely belittled and manipulated as drones trapped in a "knowledge factory." Said Marie Savie, leader of the 1964 Berkaley Free Speech Movement...
...McDonnell Douglas' commercial-aircraft division, which is long on cost-efficient smaller planes but has not been able to sell one of its star-crossed DC-10s in two years. In November, the company announced a $1 billion contract to sell 30 new 142-passenger DC-9 "Super 80s" to Alitalia, Italy's national airline...
...first time to my knowledge that an IOP fellow has had the opportunity to stay in an undergraduate House. But with my name, they had no choice about where to put me." From her contact with undergraduates, House says she sees a great gulf separating the students of the '80s from her generation of the '60s--the marked increase in job anxiety...
...remains that disinvestment began to gather momentum long before Reagan ever reared his Brylcreemed head. Bluestone and Harrison's book demands that readers of all political stripes face the fact that investment, and how to increase it--not this budget plan or that--is the economic issue for the '80s. Deindustrialization is a problem that has been brewing for a long time, and it will require a fundamental and far-reaching solution...
...this narrowness alone limits the greatness of The Verdict. The appeal of the film, its commendable production, and Newman's vivid performance, promise that it will be a film remembered throughout the '80s, when our perceived failings place us not far from the plight of Frank Galvin, a casualty of our times...