Word: 80s
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From the beginning, neither of these items has been received with less than salty grains of skepticism by the Hong Kong public. During the late '80s, I still remember how the drafting of the Basic Law dominated everyone's political discussions--at least it dominated in the news...
...80s brought prosperity to the group. Two members inherited about $300,000, allowing the cult to rent houses, called "crafts," in Denver and later the Dallas-Fort Worth region. (In the Rancho Santa Fe area, the group appears to have rented two different crafts.) Thus Applewhite had enough assets to initiate the cult's last great recruitment drive, on New Year's Day 1994. An estate sale was held at the Escondido mansion, raising money to buy four vans and gear to tour the country...
Charles was sent to psychiatric hospitals several times in the '80s, first in 1984 after breaking the nose of an elderly Grantham woman he considered a "government agent." But after each hospitalization he refused help and drifted away, spiraling downward. Retracing his father's footsteps, Lachenmeyer discovered that doctors and caseworkers had tried hard to help. "I was startled at how deeply involved they were with my father," he says. The elderly woman Charles had attacked turned out to be a retired psychiatric nurse who agreed to drive more than an hour to meet Lachenmeyer's film crew...
Remember the Bulls of the mid-80s? Jordan seemed to break a record every night as his team rewarded his efforts with yet another loss. Little help...
...that baby boomers are grappling with how to pay college tuition for their children, it's an issue. It is ironic that just a few years ago, when Generation Xers complained about their student loans, they were branded as whiners. Back in the '80s, financial-aid officers persuaded us not to worry; the "investment" would pay off. Lo and behold, after an era of corporate downsizing, our educations have become a form of indenture. College graduates matriculate to live at home; families and mortgages have been postponed. I'm disappointed that none of the $50 billion in recent legislative proposals...