Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gender-neutral terms continued to be used inconsistently through the '70s and '80s until a permanent policy solidified under Glasser and Rebecca L. Walkowitz...
...early '80s, beginning with men and women's crew, the athletic department has been in the process of combining friends groups for individual sports...
Henry says that in the early '80s administrators from other universities would call frequently to ask how Harvard had organized the report...
Bono gave up show business to become a restaurateur in the early '80s. The career switch landed him in Palm Springs, Calif., where his efforts to revamp his restaurant brought him into conflict with city zoning officials. He took on and took over city hall, becoming mayor in 1988. Bono found he had a taste for politics. A run for the Senate failed, but two years later the G.O.P. takeover of Congress swept him into the House as the Representative from California's 44th district. He was re-elected in '96. Bono sat on the House Judiciary Committee...
...ever done). It gives them that cool, outsider image they so desperately need. But over the past few years, black kids have been taking fashion cues from the whitest of the white: ski gear, polo shirts, hiking boots, N.H.L. jerseys. The gold chains and dangling clocks of the '80s have been replaced with sweaters in bright primary colors with polo embroidered on the front. Jeans are in, but the baggier the better. Ski jackets are pumped up to Michelin Man proportions. Things have got freaky, albeit in a decidedly unfreaky...