Word: haskel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lighthearted manner. They include people who scrimped through the severe 1981-82 recession and now find the cost of big-ticket items like housing, which has been climbing almost twice as fast as the C.P.I. since mid-1982, to be well beyond their reach. "They get a shock," says Haskel Benishay, professor of managerial economics at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. "They're angry at not being as well off as they think they should...