Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should hope not." As I stopped at the blinker, I noticed that the car ahead had a KENNEDY? sign on it. It was the first bumper sticker I had ever seen with a question mark. "It's a problem of decades. The '80s just don't look very good. What the Democrats need...
...fronts an aggregation known as 8--Eyed Spy, and the New York cognoscenti are ecstatic. She has landed a solo contract with ZE/Buddah records, the home of the Contortions, and her first album with the new band, Queen of Siam, is about to enter the rock wars of the '80s...
Another reason that diplomats and embassies are increasingly frequent targets of violence is that the attacks often succeed. Embassy invasion is fast becoming in the '80s what skyjacking was in the '70s. Says Brian Jenkins, the Rand Corp.'s specialist on terrorism: "The generally harder line toward other forms of international terrorism has not applied to the taking over of diplomatic missions. There is mounting evidence that terrorists may have shifted to diplomatic missions, where they are less likely to face assault...
Present social and economic conditions have stopped all but the most determined or foolhardy women from academic careers, Randolph said. She added there would be a "vanishing pool of women" professors available in the '80s...
Howard Baker: "A leader for the '80s...