Word: 80s
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...bank's financial innovations were born partly out of necessity. Once an outpost of defunct British investment bank Hill Samuel Ltd., Australian executives carried out a management buyout in the mid-'80s and renamed the bank Macquarie in honor of a 19th century colonial governor. But it wasn't until 1996, when Australia's commodity exports began to result in large budget surpluses for the government, that Macquarie's chief executive, Allan Moss, who had joined the bank in the sleepy Hill Samuel days, saw his big chance. "Bond markets were drying up," recalls Gary Turner, a Sydney-based financial...
...DIED. Claydes Charles Smith, 57, a co-founder of the funk-pop band Kool and the Gang?once called the Jazziacs?whose instrumental-heavy monster hits of the '70s and '80s included Ladies' Night, Jungle Boogie, Joanna?which Smith wrote?and the now standard wedding anthem Celebration, which he co-wrote; after a long illness; in Maplewood, New Jersey...
DIED. Claydes Charles Smith, 57, co-founder of the funk-pop band Kool & the Gang (once called the Jazziacs), whose monster hits of the '70s and '80s included Jungle Boogie, Joanna--which Smith wrote--and the now standard wedding anthem Celebration, which he co-wrote; after a long illness; in Maplewood...
...drama, 180 degrees from Cromartie. Similar to, but not nearly so engaging as, the Disney TV-movie hit High School Musical, this one is an earnest, virtually all-girl story about a quartet who hope to win their year-end talent competition with a rendition of the Blue Hearts? 80s hit song that is this movie?s title. The proceedings, under Nobuhiro Yamashita?s sluggish direction, are predictable and hardly worth noting - except for that song, simple and simply irresistible, which neither meditation nor surgery has been able to remove from my head since I saw the movie last year...
...move right on many issues? Demographers say it has something to do with coming of age in the '80s and '90s. "If your formative experience is Ronald Reagan as opposed to John Kennedy, then that's going to have an impact on how you think about the world," says William Galston, a former Clinton official who now directs the University of Maryland's Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement...