Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...area in which he will need that energy in the future will be in counteracting the forces of the Reagan administration, which Nader says is the chief enemy to the consumer during the early '80s. The administration, he says, "is literally going to try to roll the clock back to the Eisenhower administration in the areas of product, auto and food and drug safety and anti-trust enforcement...
Obviously. Nader says, he cannot effect this kind of mass mobilization on his own. He points to student groups as the major catalysts for consumers' rights programs in the '80s. Despite what has often been referred to as a growing conservatism on campuses around the country. Nader says student groups in the '80s will be more active, though not as large, as activist groups during...
...South Korea's economic outlook: I rule out dramatic economic growth. We seek stable economic growth based on stable prices. During the '80s, we would like to achieve an average annual growth rate of 7%. I am optimistic. Our export trade is improving steadily, and we have highly competent public servants to deal with the problem of planning an economic policy. We also have a hardworking, zealous, dedicated labor force...
...thugs lurking outside the window. Leave it to the Reader's Digest to mourn our passing national innocence--but the real problem is we've lost our faith in passion. Murder and passion seem almost antithetical at the present, and adultery--well, adultery is for adolescents in the 80s...
What they are not like is certainly clear enough. They are not like their predecessors, those activists of the '60s. Professional youth watchers have described the young of the '80s as being more traditional, more religious, less rebellious than earlier youths. Also more pessimistic, more serious, more worldlywise. Says Psychology Professor Harry Schumer of the University of Massachusetts: "They are returning to private goals. What matters is the here and now." James Barry, director of admissions at St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa, says: "The good old days [of mobilized youth] never happened to them. They hardly even...