Word: 80s
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LeBow, 59, makes an unlikely populist hero. He's an '80s-style corporate buccaneer who plundered Western Union, rattled American Brands and took runs at Prime Computer and RJR Nabisco. As head of the Liggett tobacco company, he has contributed to one of America's unhealthiest habits, but last week, ironically, he became the bearer of gifts to those plotting the demise of the cigarette industry. In settling a raft of lawsuits, LeBow agreed to turn over documents that presumably tell what the tobacco execs knew and when they knew...
...contact with family or friends. Some even chose to be castrated. (Law enforcement officials in California reported Friday that about six of the males who committed suicide at Rancho Santa Fe, including Applewhite, had been surgically castrated some time ago.) Nettles died of cancer in 1985. By the late '80s, the cult had lost a slew of members. This was when Applewhite turned to the Internet to gather a new flock. One of the newest converts was Yvonne McCurdy-Hill, a 39-year-old Cincinnati woman. She left behind five children in September to join the cult...
...contact with family or friends. Some even chose to be castrated. (Law enforcement officials in California reported Friday that about six of the males who committed suicide at Rancho Santa Fe, including Applewhite, had been surgically castrated some time ago.) Nettles died of cancer in 1985. By the late '80s, the cult had lost a slew of members. This was when Applewhite turned to the Internet to gather a new flock. One of the newest converts was Yvonne McCurdy-Hill, a 39-year-old Cincinnati woman. She left behind five children in September to join the cult...
...changed radically. In 1959, for example, manufacturing accounted for 28% of gross domestic product, vs. 17% today. Meanwhile, health care has grown from 3% to 11%, and financial services from 14% to 18%. Since the 1980s the Dow keepers have been scrambling to reflect such developments. So in the '80s American Express and McDonald's were added to the Dow as the likes of Johns-Manville and Owens-Illinois vanished. The early '90s saw Disney and J.P. Morgan added, while Navistar and USX got the boot. With the latest changes, which take effect this week, the Dow has morphed further...
...hard to say whether there wasn't enough heaven in Russell's life or simply too much hell. Throughout the 1970s and '80s, Russell may have been America's foremost scholar of Satan, having published five acclaimed tomes with titles such as The Prince of Darkness and Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World. But by the fall of 1987 he was suffering internal torment, compounded by a dreadful event in his personal life (a friend killed her son and then herself). "I was clinically depressed and spiritually in a very dark place," he says. "Fifteen years of studying evil...