Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...figures) 101. Number 4: Lansing, Michigan, 1975--young girl boards school bus and feels a sharp tug at her hair, thinks it's the bully, but then quickly and painfully discovers her hair is actually caught in the merciless grip of the bus's doors. Number 12: Manhattan, mid-'80s--same young girl, though older, wiser, and out as a lesbian now, saunters through the midtown law office she's temping for, chats it up with the lawyers and secretaries, blissfully upbeat, until a fellow word-processor lets her know that the back of her skirt is tucked into...
...cycles in the U.S. since 1850: the post-Civil War "Gilded Age" ending in the 1880s; the Roaring Twenties; the post-World War II expansion from 1950 to the mid-'60s; and the current cycle, which began in the late '70s and has seen the merger mania of the '80s extend into the present. All previous cycles lasted about 12 to 20 years and ended in periods of heavy regulation. There are now signs, says the Report, that "strategic overreaching is already provoking a new countertide." Among the symptoms: public opinion worried about the ruling party in Congress favoring business...
...idea of being able to predict which salesmen are most likely to prosper was not an abstraction for Metropolitan Life, which in the mid-'80s was hiring 5,000 salespeople a year and training them at a cost of more than $30,000 each. Half quit the first year, and four out of five within four years. The reason: selling life insurance involves having the door slammed in your face over and over again. Was it possible to identify which people would be better at handling frustration and take each refusal as a challenge rather than a setback...
...rarefied band of right-wing intellectuals. At its center: Dinesh D'Souza, a 34-year-old Indian-born conservative wunderkind who has made a name for himself by bashing women, gays and minorities ever since he presided over the Dartmouth Review, a fecklessly racist student publication, in the early '80s. Today he is a case study in assimilation through bigotry, an ambitious immigrant who has achieved minor celebrity in his new homeland--and a sort of honorary status as a white man--by taking advantage of opportunities created by the civil rights movement, then turning his guns on it. Nothing...
...criminals. Even the few black actors who broke into leading-man roles were confined in various ways. Sidney Poitier, the premier black star of the 1950s and '60s, was all too often limited to moralizing integrationist films. Eddie Murphy, one of the biggest box-office draws of the '80s, has found it difficult to move beyond formulaic comedies...