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...Clean Water Act violations; in another case, a manager pled guilty to illegally dumping toxic wastewater into the Pagan River; the state of Virginia also has a suit pending against the company alleging more than 22,000 discharge and pollution violations from the mid-'80s to the mid-'90s...
...Beat-en Generation. Even the arc of his own life story parallels that of Japan's postwar history: he grew up poor amid the ashes of World War II. He came of age during the postwar boom. He found himself during the bubble economy of the '80s and early '90s, when he relentlessly poked fun at a too-rigid society and rebelled against a benumbing hierarchy. And now, finally, like Japan itself, he has grown into a bloated, entertainment superpower, still funny, still possessing formidable hidden powers, but an epigone of what he once was and, in many ways...
...amassed an impressive array of financial companies on the cheap while others were getting tech-obsessed. He is now the head of Citigroup, one of the world's largest banks. Icahn, the '80s raider who shook Texaco and took TWA, has asserted influence in small doses throughout the '90s by buying large amounts of distressed corporate debt, as has former Milken colleague Leon Black at Apollo Advisors...
There have been other impediments to raider activity. Better management, for instance. Gone is the widespread corporate fat that marked the '80s. Two decades of shareholder activism and a hotly competitive global economy in the '90s have led CEOs to trim fat without prodding...
...AIDS were diagnosed in the U.S., the mysterious disease stuck close to the population that is still most associated with its ravages: gay men. But then, as the virus spread, it touched more "normal" lives, left its urban habitat and invaded small towns across the country. By the mid-'90s, everyone was talking about AIDS, not as the gay man's disease, but as a universal threat. Schools started talking about condoms; kids were shown videos touting abstinence or AIDS prevention or both; some cities started handing out clean needles to intravenous drug users...