Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economic outlook is as bright as the smile of a Rose Bowl queen. By decade's end the population will grow to 26 million. The Golden State is also expected to provide 3 million, or 15%, of the nation's new jobs during the '80s. In sum, California-style tax revolts, together with all that sunshine, provide a good climate for economic growth...
...scene anything like the dynamic energy, the sheer stylistic force with which John Badham drove Fever. Finally, the electric charge that Travolta jolted into that film is missing here. If he keeps on this way, he will turn out to be not the Brando of the '80s but the Troy Donahue of the decade...
...TURN of the '80s, Harvard seems a far different place from the University at the turn of the '70s--and, to the superficial glance, a far better one. Students attend to their studies, and nothing short of the threat of war can rouse many to protest. Faculty members teach their courses and research in an atmosphere conducive to serious scholarship, and point to the Core Curriculum as an example of their deep concern for the intellectual lives of undergraduates. Administrators nod approvingly, and as money flows into the well-defended endowment from generous alumni pockets, they jealously guard the academic...
...executive trio takes over for the '80s...
...says, adding that other corporations' executives also teach. And the kind of business that research universities lure--high technology, research and development--are the growth industries of the next 25 years. The state's High Technology Council predicts 70 per cent of new jobs created in Massachusetts in the '80s will be tied to high technology. With inflation making it cheaper to expand into previously developed areas, and with the advantages of urban production during fuel shortages, all the ingredients for a boom are there...