Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...response to your report "How Man Began" ((SCIENCE, March 14)), I would note that the nearly 2 million-year age, reported as the key breakthrough in dating hominids in Java, used to be found in textbooks of the 1970s and early '80s. But later years of investigation by teams from Japan, the Netherlands and Indonesia reset the age of these hominids to little more than 1 million years. A true revolution in our thinking about a complex of multiple human lineages, each with a proper extinction, stays intact with either the older- or younger-date theory. Geographic expansion...
...personally to the price of the gap. "I was very puzzled about AIDS," says Harry Woosley Jr., an AIDS/HIV educator in Baltimore, Maryland, who visits churches, apartment complexes and bars with a large deaf population, trying to get the word out. "I remember reading about it ((in the mid-'80s)). It was very technical, complicated and fuzzy information to me, so I just pitched it." The "complicated information" was newspaper and magazine articles; Woosley was found to be HIV positive a few years later...
Take taxes. When the President proposed his tax increase on the rich, he did not just present it as a necessary measure for reducing the deficit. He presented it as just desserts -- fitting retribution -- for those who had made it in the '80s. Clinton would avenge the little guy on those who cashed in on the Decade of Greed. Now it turns out the President and his wife spent much of the decade trying to cash in themselves, albeit ineptly (hence the $69,000 loss -- alleged and unclaimed on their income tax returns -- on Whitewater...
...hirsute Texas trio, has always cut a jagged diagonal across the pop landscape. During the egocentric '80s, when Madonna, Duran Duran and Michael Jackson were using MTV to magnify their star appeal, ZZ Top put an ironic distance between itself and the camera, vamping behind Rip Van Winkle beards, trench coats and sunglasses. The group's slyly salacious videos about glossy cars and sassy girls were always delivered with a knowing wink. One clip ends with the band standing on the edge of a dusty desert, striking its trademark truckin' pose before fading like a mirage on an overheated highway...
Even the President's friends came to realize the dangers of moral hubris, particularly as revealed by a generation of '60s reformers who campaigned against the '80s as the Decade of Greed. "They think of themselves as the most ethical people in the world," says an Administration insider. "They think everything they do or say is aboveboard and for the good of the country. Therefore they can't understand why someone would doubt their integrity. That is a big part of the problem...