Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...age of hypocrisy and partisanbased sniping, Babbit took unusual stances for a politician--as when in 1988 he stood out from among the droves of Democratic dwarfs early in the campaign by standing up for a tax raise...
Four years have passed since Gorbachev launched his crash program to catapult the Soviet economy into the computer age, and the results are just starting to show. Soviet manufacturers cranked out a record 100,000 microcomputers last year, bringing the total number of personal computers to an estimated 200,000. That is a far cry from the 30 million machines Moscow estimates the country can absorb. By all accounts, Gorbachev's electronic- literacy program will fall far short of its ambitious goal of installing a million computers in the schools...
Disturbed by his countrymen's fondness for the bottle, Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985 launched an all-out campaign against alcohol. The Soviets raised the legal drinking age from 18 to 21, limited the hours when alcohol could be sold and increased the price of vodka from 4.7 rubles ($7.75) to 10 rubles ($16.50) a liter. But popular resistance has forced Gorbachev to ease up on his crusade, and public drunkenness is on the rise again...
...feel sorry for himself, he feels sorry for the way the world has changed in the years following the tumult of 1969--a year which marks in his memory the point when the nation and the University he loved succumbed to the pressures of a harsher, more violent age...
...decade marked by the rise of yuppies and "New Age" music, it seems many composers have fallen into the trap of producing uplifting soundtracks that are pleasant to listen to but which are endlessly repetitive in their efforts to be relaxing...