Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early 80s, federal money dried up," she said. "There was supposed to be state money and the state money and the state money dried...
...digits on the jerseys of Magic Johnson and Shaquille O'Neal. Magic, who with Larry Bird made the N.B.A.'s '80s a decade of dazzle, brought that era to an end with his (and Bird's) retirement. But pro basketball soon found a figure worthy of Johnson's number: O'Neal, a superstar force from the first tip-off, and spearhead of the league's most glamorous freshman class since 1979. O'Neal's team: the Orlando Magic, of course...
...example of a firm that grew so rich and powerful that it became oblivious to the signals of changing times. Despite the oil crises of the 1970s and the Japanese challenge of the '80s, GM never put its heart into developing smaller, high-quality cars. It took a new division, Saturn, to develop GM's first winning U.S. small car. "When you're on top of the heap, there's a disdain for change, a disdain for new ideas," says Lawrence Hrebiniak, a professor at the Wharton School. "It just goes with the territory, because...
...asylum seekers who are expected in Germany this year is less than 5% of what is being pumped into the rehabilitation of eastern Germany, most western Germans, polls reveal, consider the asylum seekers to be the country's biggest problem. Xenophobia has been on the rise since the mid-' 80s, says Eberhard Seidel-Pielen, an expert on the right-wing scene, and "since the economic problems of unification have become dominant, foreigners are used even more as scapegoats." The political crusade to change liberal asylum laws, he contends, "has fed the latent aggression against foreigners of millions of citizens...
...MORNING DRIVE TIME, but there are no traffic reports, no weather updates, no chirpy deejays whiling away the minutes between hits of the '60s, '70s and '80s. Instead, the day's major issues and news events are given thoughtful consideration. Listen as host Howard Stern offers his usual running commentary...