Word: 80s
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...Britain's Channel 4. In one window on your computer monitor RealOne can deliver exclusive streaming audio and video, such as archived clips of Elton John, the Police and U2, from the bbc's The Old Grey Whistle Test, a TV rock show from the '70s and '80s. An adjoining window displays text information about the video. Another window allows users to surf the Web - or even work - as the video plays, while a fourth features a personalized list of things to play or listen to. The idea is to marry the best of TV with the Web. And charge...
...early '80s were a good time for LaHaye. His large ministry and publishing presence gave him influence on the ascendant religious right. He served on the first board of the Moral Majority, and in 1984 he started his own Washington group, the American Coalition for Traditional Values (ACTV, pronounced "active"). His wife had incorporated yet another group, Concerned Women for America, in 1979, and today it claims 500,000 members, about the same number reported by the National Organization for Women. In 1987, shortly after LaHaye became a co-chairman of Republican Jack Kemp's short-lived presidential campaign...
...With Harvard and MIT in Cambridge, we are at risk for attacks,” said Alexander Sagan, who had been part of the initial sanctuary movement in the ’80s. “To suggest that we might not be cooperating with federal authorities would be a mistake in this regard...
...media gladly helped inflate that image. The '80s were the new '20s, and here was its Capone! And Gotti obsessed over his coverage. TIME put an Andy Warhol portrait of him on its cover in 1986, and Gotti framed it in his office. On one surveillance tape, he and his associates can be heard critiquing a TV re-enactment of the Mob hit that brought him to power. Even that hit was cinematic: his predecessor, Paul Castellano, was gunned down in front of Sparks steak house in crowded midtown Manhattan at Christmastime. All Martin Scorsese would have added were credits...
...government and sided with the NPA?even when it sent hit squads, called "Sparrow Units," to assassinate policemen and soldiers in Davao. But the Sparrows got cocky and started bumping off suspected informants and civilians. As a counter, a vigilante group called Alsa Masa emerged in the mid-'80s, armed in part by the military and set on wiping out local communists. The vigilantes were popular until they too ran amok. A mini civil war erupted. One notably violent area called Agdao was rechristened "Nicar-agdao...