Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woman she names (long dead) was in her 80s when we knew her and looked as much like a prostitute as Margaret Thatcher...
...policy now mirrors most of the other universities in the Ivy League. Representatives from both Cornell and Columbia University said they have provided anonymous testing since the mid-80s...
Tuesday morning, fellow House members spoke with smiles of Bono, whom they described as a charismatic figure with great timing. And they spoke of a serious legislator, a student of politics for whom Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted advancement, at least within the House ranks. The liberals of the '80s, always suspicious of Reagan, found Bono's election an easy joke. He was a celebrity Congressman, popular with fellow members as well as with autograph-seekers, the second-most requested draw at members' events behind Gingrich. "The last thing in the world I thought I would be is a U.S. congressman...
According to Dongming Chen, while China allowed some visiting scholars and professors to go to America after Nixon's ground breaking visit to China in 1972, there were few channels open for the would-be student in general until the '80s...
...early '80s] we just expected to get a doctorate degree, back then China didn't even have the doctorate degree," he says...