Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...told, is restlessly obsessed with finding the next new thing--which is, apparently, a good quality. But another interpretation might be that Clark is simply driven by the pursuit of filthy lucre. There has to be a higher purpose to life than making yourself rich. During the '80s, we knew that the people making their fortune on Wall Street were hardly role models; yuppie was a derogatory term. Clark, for all his brilliance, uses his billions to do little more than buy himself great toys; he's even cynical about the get-rich-quick Net companies he's created...
...bulk of the record-buying public--with the possible exception of Dave Stewart--wasn't exactly holding its breath waiting for the Eurythmics to get back together. As '80s-band reunions go, it's an event far less interesting than a regrouping of the Police would be (though it's significantly more important than, say, a reunion of the Thompson Twins). Nonetheless, this turns out to be a welcome CD. Singer Annie Lennox and guitarist Stewart still work well together, and the songs, for the most part, are tuneful and uplifting. What's more, Lennox's voice has a cool...
...cared only that his employees embrace his apocalyptic vision for Apple as passionately as he did. "If you had religion," recalls McKenna, "you had the job." Such absolutism helped give birth to the Mac, but it wasn't exactly conducive to building a stable corporation, and by the mid-'80s Jobs, with strong encouragement from Apple's CEO and designated grownup John Sculley, had hit the highway himself...
Unlike many businesses that "window dress," as Walker puts it, their annual reports with environmental mission statements, he's been willing to take a hit on the bottom line, if necessary. In the mid-'80s, when Greenpeace was protesting Norwegian whaling, he canceled a huge prawn contract with Norway at considerable cost, and has done no more business with the country...
...most of the century, scientists widely accepted the view that the brain goes through a huge growth spurt from the womb through a person's first few years ? and then spends the rest of life deteriorating. Since the mid-'80s, scientists have been aware of new brain cell growth after the formative years, but have debated whether or not the new growth affects advanced functions such as memory. Now researchers Elizabeth Gould and Charles Gross, in an article in Friday's edition of the journal Science, report that testing in monkeys shows the growth of new neurons that attached themselves...