Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Overall, however, Boiling Point solidly persuades us that what Bill Clinton made a campaign of saying--that the middle class got the shaft during the '80s--was in fact true...
...drugs and rock 'n' roll. Drugs have long been viewed as part of the culture of rock music. Jim Morrison. Jimi Hendrix. Live fast, die young. In-a- gadda-da-vida, baby. But throughout the just-say-no '80s, rockers and rappers held their collective breath. When would it be safe to inhale? Now, with the '90s, many musicians feel that the cultural tide has shifted -- so they're going public about marijuana use and celebrating the weed in song lyrics. Once again, pop music is going...
...Oliver North thing -- the full implications weren't brought out." Certainly, sour grapes and not simply righteous indignation plays some role: two years ago, ICM hired one of the Credit Lyonnais officials who was in charge of many of the bank's movie-industry loans during the go-go '80s, and it also happens to be making forays of its own in the ad game...
...defense-industry jobs so far and possibly another 50,000 more by the end of next year. Many manufacturing jobs, which supported the city's working class, have evaporated because of corporate cutbacks. L.A.'s South Central district lost more than 70,000 jobs in the 1970s and '80s; the poverty rate for area families now is higher than it was at the time of the Watts riots...
...companies cut back [after the '80s], but Harvard has been lucky in that way," Murray said...