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Word: 80s (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scouting report said that all three of them were two-pitch pitchers," Binkowski said. "All of them hit the high 80s or low 90s on the gun, and [Adams and Haren] throw split-fingered fast-balls. [Tucker] has a good overhand curve...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Draws Waves | 5/26/1999 | See Source »

...scouting report said that all three of them were two-pitch pitchers," Binkowski said. "All of them hit the high 80s or low 90s on the gun, and [Adams and Haren] throw split-fingered fastballs. [Tucker] has a good overhand curve...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Will Face Pepperdine in NCAA Tournament | 5/26/1999 | See Source »

...call it, "a cross between rice, beans and hamburger"--that came to be known as the Miami Sound. Undeterred by industry executives who said, "Dump the timbales" or "It will never sell," the Cuban immigrant put together a local band called the Miami Sound Machine in the early '80s. The lead singer was his then girlfriend Gloria. The group's 1985 smash hit Conga transformed Gloria Estefan into the first Latin female crossover superstar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Godfather of the Miami Sound | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...This case seems to show the extent of the shambles in the U.S. intelligence establishment," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "The operation to train Muslims to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan during the '80s has proved to be a disaster. And there's an obvious lack of coordination between different arms of the intelligence establishment -- this former field officer of a foreign army turned up as a sergeant in one of the U.S. Army's most sensitive special warfare facilities after having been turned away by the CIA as a security risk in 1984. So there's an obvious question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trial May Leave U.S. Intelligence Red-Faced | 5/20/1999 | See Source »

...80S ARE HISTORY Museums are there to remind us of higher things. Maybe this is why the Drug Enforcement Administration is opening a museum this week. By next year when the Museum of Sex opens, the archiving of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll will be complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worth A Trip | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

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