Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...populist strategy of his fabled predecessor Huey Long: tax the thriving oil and gas companies to fund generous patronage and state programs, much of it to the benefit of his coalition of poorer whites, French-speaking Cajuns and blacks. When oil prices took a dive in the mid-'80s, the good times stopped rolling. Edwards "was a sort of perpetual Santa Claus," says Ed Renwick, a professor of political science at Loyola University of New Orleans, "but now he's got to continually fight to balance the budget." That's dull work for a 66-year-old man who just...
Though association officials deny the charges, Japanese officials claim that the group was integral to North Korean intelligence operations through the 1970s. In the early '80s, the officials say, Chongryun shifted focus to concentrate on siphoning foreign exchange into the North...
...total quality management" was the rage among companies during the '80s, its '90s-style offspring appears to be "reengineering...
...over the last of California's privately owned ancient redwoods. Doug Thron, 24, a nature photographer, became an environmentalist after he saw the wild land in Richardson, Texas, he had hiked as a boy paved with malls and condos. Charles Hurwitz, 54, raided and leveraged his way to an '80s-style fortune, acquiring a random bag of companies, including Kaiser Aluminum and the Pacific Lumber Co. From his Houston headquarters, Hurwitz seems puzzled that other people care about some big trees Pacific owns in Humboldt County, California...
Then came the thin, pale, intensely lyrical paintings of the early '80s, which spin away the congestion altogether, and for a few years recapitulate the graphic intensity of his work in the 1940s, but in terms of an almost Chinese delicacy, in the colors of famille-rose porcelain. Looking at them is like seeing an old man's veins through his skin: the abiding network of the style is set forth, but in its last physical form...