Word: 80s
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...surprising number of other U.S. cities have come to the same conclusion, reversing the trend that created thousands of middle schools in the 1970s and '80s. Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio; Minneapolis, Minn.; Philadelphia; Memphis, Tenn.; and Baltimore, Md., are in various stages of reconfiguring their schools away from the middle school model and toward K-8s. Some suburban districts, including the wealthy Capistrano School District in Orange County, Calif., are also making the switch...
Survival rate during the 1990s for children born prematurely and weighing 2.2 lbs. or less, compared with a 50% rate in the 1970s and '80s, according to a new study...
...exiled traveled back, literally and figuratively, to the homeland. I joined them in the bus that year, and observed that they seemed to become younger by the mile as the bus rolled north through New England. It was something confirmed a time or two more, back in the ?80s-back when I was a better BLOHARD...
...have to remember that this was the early ’80s. If you needed sperm, most doctors aren’t going to give you any choice and most sperm banks are not going to give you any choice. Often, doctors would just use the nearest able bodied medical student and you were lucky if characteristics like eye color and hair color matched...
...dumbest investment I ever made was to buy an apartment in Manhattan in the late '80s. Prices were soaring, and it seemed like an effortless way to get rich, so my brother and I pooled our money and bought a place for $327,000. Within 18 months, the market tanked and the apartment's value plunged by a third. By then our tenant--who turned out to be a coke-snorting stripper--had stopped paying rent. When I threatened to change the locks, she whacked me on the head with her handbag and warned, "I know people in this...