Word: 80s
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...feel more pain than older patients--longer-lasting, more widespread pain that is likely to affect their behavior later in life. Pain unleashes a destructive cascade of stress hormones that can weaken the immune system and make the heart rate and blood pressure soar. Studies in the 1970s and '80s showed that babies deprived of anesthesia during surgery were more likely to develop infections, brain hemorrhages, muscle wasting and difficulties in healing...
Your home has always been your castle, and it used to double as a piggy bank, until a classic late-'80s bust crushed the notion of housing as an investment. But the market is finally springing to life again, and fast. Remember those heady housing markets of the 1970s and mid-'80s? Forget 'em. Not returning anytime soon. But for the first time in a decade, home prices in most of the U.S. are rising fast enough to outstrip the inflation rate of about 2.5%. And there are many hot spots. The Midwest is seeing some of the biggest leaps...
...Relative value. Many housing markets only recently emerged from the ashes of that mail-the-bank-the-keys, late-'80s decline. So there's little risk of a new meltdown. The renowned real estate bargain hunter Sam Zell has been building one of the nation's largest portfolios of apartment buildings. Meanwhile, the way the sky-high stock market has been bouncing has some folks fretting that a tumble is in store. This may be a good time to take some stock gains and invest in larger quarters. "It's a way to diversify," says Bob Van Order, economist...
...freshly learned folk songs and rock-fueled new ideas he was on the verge of unleashing. Then the folk-rock mystery rebel of the '70s, releasing insurgent basement tapes, performing benefits for Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter (a convicted murderer whose guilt he questioned). And then the fading master of the '80s, toying with gospel-inspired backup singers, collaborating with playwrights like Sam Shepard, embracing a born-again evangelistic tone, losing some of his edge, his vibrant outsider insolence...
During the mid- to late-'80s, HMC's returns were mediocre to dismal. In 1991 and 1992, Harvard's endowment grew more slowly than the large majority of college and university funds...