Word: 80s
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With political undertones in his music since the beginning of his career, it is no surprise that Gil began devoting more and more of his time to politics. In the late 80s, he became a councilman in the city of Salvador, where he also served as the president of the environmental commission among other posts...
It’s not blindingly original music, to be sure. Some of the songs played could pass for innovative pastiches of several recent 80s-inflected rockers. But Longwave never sounded stale or tired, with melodic strength and dead-on chops that belied their eager, easygoing vibe...
Plucking children from obscurity and making them stars, even for one movie, can be perilous, as the kid actors from almost any '80s TV show can attest. And even Fernando Ramos da Silva, the illiterate Brazilian boy who starred at 12 in Hector Babenco's Pixote, returned to the streets and, when he was 19, was killed by police. There are milder dangers: Boyle is worried that Etel, having carried his first film, might be disappointed if he doesn't get another big role. "The business can be very loving and also very hurtful, almost simultaneously," Boyle says...
...Labs for $8.4 billion, forging them into its existing Sandoz unit to create the world's largest manufacturer of off-patent, copycat drugs. A slide in blockbuster drug approvals in recent years - combined with the expiration of patents protecting a wave of branded drugs introduced in the '80s - has helped make generics big business. Government encouragement of the sector means off-patent drugs account for more than half of the U.K. and U.S. markets by volume. Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella reckons the sector will be worth $100 billion by 2010. But other Big Pharma firms have sold...
...a.k.a. Sam N. Ellison ’08, played rap records from the late ’80s and early ’90s by Tupac, the Notorious B.I.G., Ice Cube, and A Tribe Called Quest...