Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think today's students are much more serious, much more intellectual than the late '70s and early '80s where they were serious about getting into medical and law school," he says...
...wave of changes swept the library in the '80s and '90s, including bar codes on books, consolidation of electronic catalogs under the Hollis Plus on-line system, computer access, carpeting of the reference room, the opening of the government documents and microfilm room on the first level, the Center for Students with Disabilities and the new language resource center on the sixth floor...
...begin with. They tend to consume less calcium and vitamin D over a lifetime, and in menopause their bodies stop producing bone-protecting estrogen. So when they reach their 70s, many women begin to suffer fractures. Men are not likely to reach that stage until they are in their 80s, and because comparatively few men have lived to be octogenarians, their risk has been more theoretical than real. But as men live longer, osteoporosis will be a major problem for both sexes...
...notice that the drugs brought some awful side effects--facial contortions, blurred vision--and many patients began to refuse them. But "deinstitutionalization," as the reform movement was called, was well under way. Nearly half a million patients were returned to their communities between the mid-'50s and the mid-'80s. The Federal Government never built all the centers Kennedy promised--there are just 740 today--and states didn't take up the slack...
...affliction that can lead to undereating, overeating, food or gas poisoning, depression, even death. More than three-quarters of us will suffer from it by the time we reach our 80s. But the good news is that in some cases this affliction--the loss of taste or smell, which together enable us to savor food--can be treated. And even when these senses can't be restored, there are ways to compensate...