Word: heydays
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...like Altavista and Lycos. These engines are the Internet equivalent of classic rock and oldies radio stations that pepper the airwaves. Demographic profiles of these search engines reveal that most users are in the 35 to 44 age category, most likely users that began using these engines in their heyday and maintained their loyalty...
...almost surely enrage undergraduates further, and accusing the Undergraduate Council (of all things!) of mishandling the funds with which it is entrusted, Pilbeam administered a decanal snowjob to the Party Fund. Fun at Harvard began in the eighteenth century, after Increase Mather left for New Haven. It enjoyed its heyday in the nineteenth century, when undergraduates engaged in activities like literary discussions, the founding of Greek letter fraternities, manifest destiny, musical theater, and binge drinking. The founding of Radcliffe College in the late nineteenth century greatly increased the opportunities for fun on campus but greatly decreased the amount...
...since the heyday of independence, Burma's military has lost the love of its people. Coup leader Ne Win ruined one of Southeast Asia's most promising economies by nationalizing businesses and unveiling the disastrous "Burmese Way to Socialism." Paranoid about maintaining power above all else, the army has repeatedly turned its guns against its own people, most tragically in 1988 when a student-led protest movement was crushed, leaving some 3,000 dead. Even as the masses have grown poorer, the military has enriched itself through timber and natural-gas deals. In 2005, the ruling junta mysteriously moved...
...house to bask in the fashion limelight again first held sway more than 500 years ago. From 1485 to 1603, the house of Tudor ruled with iconoclastic sovereigns Henry VIII and Elizabeth I and an unshakable belief in power dressing. Forget horse bits and camellias; in the Tudors' heyday, outré looks like the ruff, the codpiece and the farthingale hoopskirt were high-fashion musts...
...compressed, music videos were not just a new way of selling music; they changed TV series (the pitch for Miami Vice was simply "MTV cops") and influenced movies (graduating directors like Spike Jonze, David Fincher and Michel Gondry). The best clips from MTV's all-video '80s heyday--from Michael Jackson to Talking Heads--capture the power of the music rather than replace it. MTV taught us to see with our ears and listen with our eyes...