Word: 80s
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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AARP's torrid growth hasn't come without controversy. Critics have long argued that the organization stretches the concept of nonprofit; an IRS probe in the '80s resulted in the creation of AARP Services--and a $135 million fine...
...album is not without its high points. The title track is a retro pop gem with a bit of swing and gratuitous but not overwhelming woo-hoos in the background. “Early Winter” could almost come off a best-of-’80s collection, and if Stefani’s admittedly somewhat Munchkin-like voice isn’t the most suited for power ballads, the unpretentious plaintiveness with which she wails in frustration, “Why do you act so stupid / You know that I’m always right” comes...
...Circulation isn't as great, but the combined audiences we are creating and keeping are better than they were. It's a really hard time for newspapers. I've been through newspaper wars here, conventional warfare, but this is a guerilla war. I thought it was hard in the 80s and 90s, but it's much harder now. The competition is everywhere. Everybody's an editor now, a distiller of information...
...with family businesses,” says Yale I. Turner, the owner of Vision House Opticians on JFK Street.His business first opened in the Holyoke Center, but he says his rent was doubled, along with the rent of many other stores in the center during the ’80s to make way for a revamp of the space.Harvard’s Senior Director of Community Relations, Mary Power, says that the Holyoke arcade was unsafe and deserted at night, and, in order to revitalize the area, several of the leases were not renewed. “The idea...
...similar to the speed-reading phenomenon. In the '70s and '80s there were all sorts of advertisements for this great system that would help you read the whole Sunday Times in 15 minutes "with complete comprehension and recall." I almost sent away for it. I still wonder about it but am now pretty sure it doesn't work. Here's how I know: I have never met a single person who could do it. Hanging around with many big readers for the past 35 years I should have bumped into at least one who took the course and could actually...