Word: 80s
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...else, you've got to listen to the $1,000 givers. I mean, no individual is corrupt, but the body has been corrupted. I've been trying to put in a constitutional amendment to regulate or control spending in federal elections. I had 12 Republicans supporting it in the '80s. Now I can't get a Republican because they say, 'Wait a minute. We've got the money. [The Democrats] have got [organized] labor.' [To Nickles] Now y'all have proved we ain't got labor...
...were born into a world with four dollars to the pound and then lived through periods in the 1980s when there was near dollar-pound parity--which contributed to a pervasive sense of national decline. The strength of the yen in the bubble years of the late '80s convinced many that Japan had become "Number...
...candidacy in the 2007 presidential race. Some of Hollande's colleagues in the yes camp - including Strauss-Kahn, former Culture Minister Jack Lang and Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë - hanker after the presidency, too. But Laurent Fabius, a former Prime Minister under François Mitterrand in the mid-'80s, is spearheading the no campaign as part of his own presidential bid. He argues that the constitution favors unfettered free markets at the expense of social policy, public service and government intervention. Fabius is appealing to the party's left wing, which includes union members and harder-line leftists...
...were born into a world with four dollars to the pound and then lived through periods in the 1980s when there was near dollar-pound parity-which contributed to a pervasive sense of national decline. The strength of the yen in the bubble years of the late '80s convinced many that Japan had become "Number...
...critic for New York magazine, and his wife, writer Annalyn Swan, have produced a superb biography, thorough and surefooted. It's a book full of nuanced readings of de Kooning's work and sympathetic but dry-eyed accounts of his very disordered life, especially in the 1970s and '80s. Those were the years when he was treated as a national treasure, even as he plunged through the trapdoors of alcoholism and Alzheimer's disease. "A gorgeous wreck" is what they call him. Who can disagree...