Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...devoted a career to this," says Dailey, "but I know that drug use is more prevalent in the freshman class than ever before." Despite all the societal angst generated over drug use during the 1980s, she feels that attitudes since then have softened. "In the late '70s and early '80s there was plenty of denial but also the idea that drugs aren't good," says Dailey. "Honestly, today a lot of parents don't feel that way. They hark back to the days when they used. And they don't realize what's happened to drug content or what...
...convicted of stock fraud in Ontario and fined Can$500,000--believed to be the largest personal fine in Canadian history up to that time. In 1979 he was sentenced to four years in prison in another case, a conviction that was overturned on appeal. By the '80s, he had set out for Europe to help run an Amsterdam-based company called First Commerce Securities, which became mired in scandal. The operation was a classic boiler room--a brokerage firm that used high-pressure sales tactics to push dubious securities. Telemarketers dialed for dollars around the clock to all points...
CABBAGE PATCH KIDS, toy-store phenomenon of the mid-'80s...
...will the N64 be? Harrison expects 5 million to sell by Christmas '97. Not bad, but a far cry from the original eight-bit system; almost 40 million units sold in the Stone Age '80s...
...University has retreated from its position at the cutting edge in the late 80s...