Word: 80s
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...reaction in the medical community was immediate--and fierce. Critics argued that the methodology of the Danish review was flawed and that several studies were too hastily thrown out. Others pointed out that both mammography and breast cancer treatments are better now than they were in the 1970s and '80s, when some of those studies were conducted. Some breast cancer advocates have even wondered whether the Danish researchers might have had an economic or a political incentive to downplay the benefits of what are fairly expensive screening programs...
...good part of Kabhie Khushi's $10 million budget went to pay for the leads: Amitabh Bachchan, who lit up the screens in the '70s and '80s; Shah Rukh Khan, who pulled in the audiences in the '90s; and current heartthrob Hrithik Roshan. Each is paired with an equally stellar actress: Bachchan with his real-life wife, Jaya, whose impish charm once made her the girl Indian men would have loved to take home to mom; Khan with Kajol Mukherjee, whose girl-next-door persona spawned some of the biggest hits of the past decade; and Roshan with Kareena Kapoor...
...prosperous and lovely regions, just as the first rays of dawn begin to spread over the landscape. Then the romance starts. Viticulture in the Hunter Valley began in the early 1820s but only in the 1960s did the wine industry of the lower valley begin to flourish. By the '80s it had superseded coal mining as the centerpiece of the local economy. These days about 160 grape growers and 43 wineries dot the valley, many offering daily tastings. And that's just the beginning of the gourmet allures: the region features some of the country's finest restaurants and many...
Frenchman Christian Blanc has spent his career doing what most people try to avoid: finding tough but necessary solutions to explosive problems. In the late '80s, as chief government negotiator in New Caledonia, Blanc brokered a peace accord that ended years of bloody separatist violence. Later, as head of the Paris public-transport authority, he battled unruly unions and a waffling Socialist government to end an era of incessant, paralyzing strikes. As president of Air France from 1993-97, Blanc brought the airline from the brink of bankruptcy to profitability - and partial privatization - by alternatively cajoling and compelling rebellious staff...
...Besides, since when was the 40th percentile average? That means 60 percent of kids who take this test do better than he did. For a while we started referring to him, when he wasn't around, as "Dumbo," or "the Brainiac." Our friends, whose kids got somewhere in the 80s, all assured us the test didn't mean a thing, except that he's not going to that fancy preschool. But once someone has come out and said it, it's hard to shake the notion that your kid might in fact not be bright. And it's easy...