Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world. Mooney sees the problem and plays with it entertainingly. He also convincingly portrays a kind of ambitious anxiety that can erupt at any time in the here and now. At 29, he may well be an early warning system for what fiction in the '80s will be like. -By Paul Gray
...times, the argument is powerful. Tsongas discusses eight "realities" of the '80s, and in one case, where he argues less for compromise than for both sides to see a new direction, he is irrefutable. The issue is energy, a Tsongas specialty for at least the last eight years, and when his statistics are flung down on the table there is little to quarrel with. America--and even more the world--is running short of traditional fuels, he says. The long-term development of inexhaustible resources is assured, but in the interim a mix of conservation and dirty energy--coal...
...about to fold. Despite heavy pressure from the bulging Boston Globe (circ. 502,920), the Herald American is optimistically pushing on. Says Publisher James Dorris: "We're giving the people of Boston and New England something they want, a compact, easy-reading, lively newspaper for the '80s...
...with shock and astonishment. What no one could have realized until now is that tele vision has not only changed since the '50s, with color and a dozen other technical advances, it has been transformed. It is, indeed, scarcely the same medium. The TV of the '80s is no more like that of the '50s than talking movies are like silents. The loss, it might be added, is immeasurable...
...biggest winner of the deal. But the Salomon partners would be losing the autonomy and privacy that comes from being controlling owners in the fast-moving world of bond trading and investment banking. "What we were giving up was sentimental and wonderful," said Gutfreund. "But looking at the '80s and '90s, this merger would pitch us way beyond what we could do alone...