Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closet and taunts with lines like. "I'm fucking the dog, Mom" comes out and announces. "Children were given to us by you-know-who so that we could make order out of our own lives." It's a chilling vision, perhaps closer to the '60s than the '80s, but still potent, and McKeaney can write ferociously funny lines: "I'd kill any one of you for that dog," snarls Babs with disarming moral certitude...
Predicting victory for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), a congresswoman and two political activists called last night for renewed efforts in the '80s to advance rights for women on "all women's issues," from abortion to budget cuts...
...more than 25% of the total output of the economy. Getting control of that skyrocketing cost, and making sure that the money is well spent, has become one of the most critical challenges facing business today. Says Donald N. Frey, chairman of Bell & Howell: "The decade of the '80s is going to be very much concerned with improving white collar productivity...
EUREKA. Howabouta traditional values woman (sans hang-ups) in tune with the '80s. You'll find me warm, gentle, sensuous, capable. . . andgreatfun. I'm either beautiful or great looking (depending upon your taste), 41, 5 ft. 8 in., slim, blonde/blue, classy, smart, spiritually healthy and intellectually curious ... I'm a high achiever professionally and will refuse to compete with you . . . well-read . . . well-traveled...
Harding believes that, in spite of current dim forebodings, the '80s will provide Blacks with opportunities to develop. Consciousness of past accomplishments and of the difficulties that others have faced can stimulate a movement that will remold the entire country's attitudes and prejudices. Whether this decade realizes his prediction is not absolutely essential; he has, and will instill in others, King's dream that "one day this nation will rise up [and] live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.'" As long as the dream...