Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take the time in the mid-'80s when Pressler chose to testify before his own Commerce Committee. When a Senate colleague began to interrogate him, Pressler protested, "I don't think it's proper to ask hard questions to members." Or consider the fact that Republican committee staff members once took it upon themselves to supply Pressler with a stream of memos during meetings so that observers would think he was engaged in the proceedings...
...Since three professors left in quick succession in the late '80s, the department has had to supplement its faculty with visiting professors, among them the distinguished Tzvetan Todorov," Hunnewell writes...
...different now is that there are so few ideologues among us. Big Think has been thoroughly discredited. Campus activists are by definition uncool and they frequently complain that they can't get the favorable coverage they used to depend on from the paleo-liberal Crimson of the '70s and '80s...
...news for Corey Feldman fans: the seemingly disappeared star of cheesy '80s teen flicks like License to Drive will be on a new cbs show this season. In Dweebs he'll play a software-company worker with byte-size social skills. The big question: Is there a part for the other member of the "two Coreys," Corey Haim...
...four lowest-rated daytime soaps. Some soaps are working hard to boost ratings with stranger than usual story lines. On ABC's 26-year-old serial One Life to Live, Viki Lord Buchanan's multiple-personality disorder is wreaking havoc again after years of dormancy. During the mid-'80s the matronly blond heroine (played by Erika Slezak) harbored only one alter ego: racy barfly Niki Smith. But now Viki is plagued by four additional inner selves, including kidnapper Jean Randolph, corporate saboteur and future arsonist Tori, a thug named Tommy and a vulnerable little girl viewers know as Princess...