Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Happily, the linking double-Os in the gilt banner provide a perfunctory nod to 80s extravagance. An ironic gesture? Not likely...
Carl W. Pilgrim, a Coop loss prevention agentand store detective, says the store's percentageloss has been steadily decreasing since it hit ahigh of seven percent in the mid-80s...
...undertakings over the trial -- has been the cornerstone of Washington's containment policy. "The Lockerbie issue kept sanctions in place, allowing the U.S. to very successfully box in Ghaddafi," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "He'd been financing guerrilla groups all over the world during the '80s, but now he's hardly a factor...
...third is nearing college graduation. And, at age 50, statistically speaking, the Ritzlers are only a little more than halfway through life. That's right: the Society of Actuaries estimates that baby boomers will be the first generation of which both sexes are expected to live well into their 80s, and many will live to see a 100th birthday...
That is some of the circumstantial but rather sexy evidence surrounding Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, in a contention that began in 1920 and has gathered steam through the '80s and '90s. De Vere led a life that was a veritable mirror of Shakespeare's art. Why then did he not write under his own name? It would have been unseemly, his advocates point out, for a courtier to attach his name to public wares. And De Vere was a truly uncommon nobleman: he was the hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain and a sometime favorite of Elizabeth...