Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students also approved the Credo in themid-'80s, but only on a third attempt after afirst student vote lacked a quorum and a secondvote defeated it. In a poll of 938 studentsconducted by the Honor Committee two years ago, 90percent affirmed that the Business School needed ahonor code...
...Harvard has had a long history of looking at the quality of health care, long before [President] Clinton came aboard," Peterson said. "Explicitly, it goes back at least to the early '80s. They've been doing lots of studies to look at the effectiveness and the use-fulness of health care treatment...
...million times better than anything Mssrs. Stipe, Buck, Berry and Mills have produced in years. The excellent opener, "Silence Kid," a message to a shy little boy who shouldn't listen to his grandmother's advice, seems to reference almost every sub-genre of rock (classic oldies, weird early '80s experimental music from New Zealand, and more) while still maintaining its own integrity. People have always accused Pavement of being derivative, and it's true that they often should like other great bands. But that's rock'n roll, pal, take it or leave it! The final song...
Fugard first felt his relevance eroding when black anger overwhelmed white liberal gradualism in the '80s. Then, as the intransigent white government relented and prospects for peace improved, critics -- notably in New York City -- seemed to lose interest in a man they once hailed as great. Fugard's most recent pieces, My Children! My Africa! and Playland, dealt with South Africa's smoldering race hatred via small-scale, personal tragedies. Each had success elsewhere in the U.S. and around the world but closed quickly off-Broadway. Even at home in South Africa, where the shows were lauded, people wonder what...
...Chicago the Nation operates the Muhammad University of Islam, actually an elementary and secondary school run by Shelby Muhammad, a former Chicago public-school teacher who converted in the early '80s. Along with religious training, the school emphasizes math, science -- and discipline. Children are searched on arrival, not only for weapons but for candy and gum as well. This rigor is so popular, Muhammad says, that she has had to stop accepting applications from non-Muslim parents...