Word: 80s
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...concerns the question of whether America needs a new generation of nuclear warheads. While serving under former President George W. Bush, Gates had repeatedly called for the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program to be put into operation, because the nation's current nukes - mostly produced in the 1970s and '80s - are growing so old that their destructive power may be in question...
Technology saved the music industry in the '80s. Technology also destroyed it less than 20 years later. The advent of file sharing programs like Napster, the industy's refusal to adopt new distribution methods, free-spending executives, the shrinking of radio and the increasing power of big-box retailers over devoted record stores - all have led to the present situation, where many consumers would rather steal music than pay for it. Knopper's analysis of the situation is pretty insular, however. Rather than attempting to draw parallels between music and other entertainment industries that have been rocked by the Internet...
...communist spy, the main characters are caught up in a fire on a floating restaurant and in a landslide that brings down a luxury apartment building, the stock market crashes and the son of a prominent Struan employee is murdered. All of this takes place in settings of high-'80s kitsch, through which Brosnan strides with not a hair out of place nor a crease in his fastidiously tailored attire. It's terrific...
GOSSIP GIRL spin-off to focus on mother in '80s L.A. Prediction: rich girl hates parents, meets bad boy, gets preggers...
...like that. It was always just, "Hey, are you the guy who did it last time?" Because we have a new group of people every four years and 90% of them have never put on a parade before, much less an Inaugural parade. I guess it was in the '80s or '90s that I'd wait until about six weeks before the Inaugural parade was to take place before I'd contact a mover, a shaker or a decision maker to say, "Hey, I'm here if you need me." And anytime I make myself known, it's like...