Word: eras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many companies are still trying to figure out how to use effectively the computers they bought during the go-go era of a few years ago. The head of Eastman Kodak's computer operations, Katherine Hudson, says her computer budget barely grew at all this year, in contrast to an increase of more than 15% last year. Rather than buy new hardware, she is "looking for ways to make past investments pay off first...
...appear at an A.N.C. rally in Soweto this Sunday, the first such assembly to be permitted in 30 years. State President F.W. de Klerk was beginning to make good on the promise he made at his inauguration last month to ease tensions and move the country into a new era of negotiations. His action signaled his potential willingness to go even further -- to free Nelson Mandela, the symbolic leader of black nationalism, and to sit down for talks with the A.N.C., which for three decades has been dedicated to toppling the government by "armed struggle...
...Roaring Twenties news photography began an extravagant era of expansion. After the bloodiest war in history, the world had fled to private pursuits. A craving remained, however, for images of disaster and tragedy -- and something more: insights into the humdrum reality that most people were delighted to embrace. Photography responded with a huge boom in publication. Pictorial magazines and photographic journalism entered a period of creative magnificence...
After World War I, photography entered an era of unparalleled creativity, propelled in part by sophisticated new picture magazines...
Beset by television and the proliferation of news pictures, photojournalism renewed itself by bringing a more personal vision -- and sometimes a darker one -- to an era of accelerating events at home and abroad...