Word: advent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...breakfast tables to their desks to start a day's work. Of course, working at home for pay has been around for as long as women have taken in knitting, doctors have put up shingles on their houses and writers have set up typewriters in their dens. But the advent of personal computers and other advanced technology has vastly expanded the range of occupations that can be successfully pursued in studies or basements. The swelling ranks of stay-at- homers include management consultants, stockbrokers, newsletter publishers, advertising directors, energy engineers, urban planners and graphic designers. The number of home professionals...
...advent of TV or the Pill more important than war or politics? A new book assesses what mattered in the 20th century...
...Economist Robert Heilbroner, writing in The New Yorker: "It is a sense that an ill-defined but vast crisis looms on the economic horizon." In a University of Wisconsin-Madison survey of 105 top executives of major U.S. corporations, half the business leaders assigned a "high probability" to the advent of a major depression in the next ten years...
...classy drama series set in a Los Angeles law firm. Never mind the courtroom theatrics; this is a show about attractive young professionals grappling with '80s problems: managing relationships, balancing a career and personal life, reconciling ideals with the demands of the real world. Another influence has been the advent of people meters, the new ratings technology that is expected to mean higher ratings for shows watched by younger, upscale viewers. Most important may be the fact that TV writers and producers -- mostly well-paid men and women in their 20s, 30s and 40s -- are simply creating shows about what...
...become hopelessly unsettled in the face of single-minded zeal. The tendency is then to mistake it for irrationality. Ronald Reagan once famously referred to a group of regimes that defy the rules of international conduct as the "strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich." Less than two years later it was discovered that Reagan not only had dealt with these Looney Tunes but, in the words of his former chief of staff, had been snookered by them...