Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...running for governor because I believe that if we are to survive and flourish in the 1980s and '90s, we must change the way our state government operates...
...basic of skills. That's why I've called for the introduction of high state-wide standards and testing in our school system. I've called for tests which are rigorous and standards that reflect the demands, in terms of skills and knowledge, which society in the '80s and '90s will place on graduates...
...deal. But the Salomon partners would be losing the autonomy and privacy that comes from being controlling owners in the fast-moving world of bond trading and investment banking. "What we were giving up was sentimental and wonderful," said Gutfreund. "But looking at the '80s and '90s, this merger would pitch us way beyond what we could do alone...
...final year of his life, as in the final scene of a well-made comedy, virtue was rewarded: Wodehouse received a knighthood. As he scribbled vigorously into his 90s, he made a rare confession: "I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write...
...resist plugging the space shuttle's military possibilities. Said he, at a homecoming in Houston last week: "I think the American public is going to get their money's worth out of this baby. It will allow us to do in the '80s and '90s things we must do for defense...