Word: eras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason, it's a shame, and I think it's our greatest danger." His conciliatory move this week may actually hasten reform and speed up the Government investigation by reducing the elements of conflict, as he intends. But Melamed's response recalled a bit of wisdom from a bygone era in Chicago: when surrounded by the Feds, come out with your hands...
MILT JACKSON: BEBOP (East-West). The Modern Jazz Quartet's eminent vibes man dives deep into the bop era, working fresh wonders on eight vintage tunes, mostly by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. If Bird lives in Clint Eastwood's recent film biography, he gets a neat new lease on life here...
Specifically, insiders doubt the president's ability to bring down the $155 billion deficit--a hand-me-down from the Reagan era--without raising taxes or making massive social spending cuts, as he has promised. Even many staunch Republicans say Bush's spending plan will not be enough to keep the federal government...
While many experts say the deficit spending of the Reagan era has helped fuel a six-year recovery, those experts believe it will lead to future economic instability. Experts also say that the budget deficit has contributed to a deepening trade deficit, which threatens American industrial competitiveness abroad...
...with an uneventful splashdown in the Pacific. It was a marvelous Christmas gift to the human race -- and especially to the U.S., battered by war, assassination and domestic strife. For the first time, men saw the entire globe floating in the void. It was the centerpiece of a new era, a new consciousness: the Space Age. In the cramped confines of an 11-ft.-long module, blasted aloft by a 363-ft. Saturn 5 rocket, the three astronauts embodied an American urge for restless exploration, wedded to an unheard-of degree of technical precision. With the nation's self-confidence...