Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Williams, who was 26 when Mork & Mindy went on the air. In addition to too much trivial sex, there was too much vodka and bourbon and way too much cocaine. "It was like symbiotic abuse. It was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Williams. The bloated fish," he calls his early-'80s self. "The Michelin poster child...
While his team would endure tough times in the mid-'80s, Slater reached the pinnacle of his career in 1990, when the Red Raiders advanced to the Final Four before finally being knocked off by Wisconsin in the championship game. That year, Colgate amassed a school record 36 wins, and Slater was voted NCAA Hockey Coach of the Year...
...happens, Bonfire was only an ordinarily bad film and an ordinary box- office bomb; Robert Redford's Havana cost as much and earned far less. The reason Bonfire was a goner from the git-go is that it was based on the one '80s novel every media savant had read and, mentally, already filmed. Even a reverent adaptation would have been fitted with an Armani shroud...
Pity the poor TV innovator; his work is never done. Steven Bochco changed the course of network TV in the early '80s with his breakthrough cop show Hill Street Blues. He opened new areas of provocative subject matter a few years later with his yuppie drama L.A. Law. Those hits were enough to convince ABC that Bochco was worth a long-term gamble: in 1987 the network signed him to a contract worth $50 million, to develop 10 series during the next decade. Then Bochco had to face a really tricky problem: how to top himself...
...California's destiny will have to ride on its economy. But will ; the state's economy grow quickly enough to keep up with its population? That was far easier in the '80s, when growth reached a full-steam 7%. During those years, however, an exodus of businesses from California was also beginning, and manufacturing quietly declined 18%. States from Nevada to Oklahoma are trying to entice California companies with lower taxes and wages, less regulatory hassling and far more affordable housing. One aerospace-component manufacturer with a 40-worker factory in the Sacramento Valley got phone calls from Texas Governor...