Word: mid-1980s
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...Born to a poor Uzbek farming family, Dostum had little formal education and worked in the natural-gas fields near Shibarghan before joining the military during communist rule in Afghanistan. By the mid-1980s he was in command first of a militia battalion, then of a division. His big break came with the Soviet pullout from Afghanistan in 1988-89. As the troop convoys headed home and the rebel mujahedin sharpened their knives, Dostum and his Soviet-funded army of tough Uzbek and Turkmen irregulars emerged as the only real mobile outfit the communist regime of President Najibullah could count...
...such as "work is money, money is happiness." Those messages were antithetical to Buddhism, which teaches that suffering is quelled by rejecting material desires. In its constitutional role as protector of the state religion, the government began co-opting the clergy into supporting its new consumer culture. By the mid-1980s, the economy was booming and people were working hard to pay for fancy cars, mobile phones and Versace clothes. Temptations also breached the temple gates. Some Buddhist leaders were now being chauffeured in Mercedes-Benz, wearing silk robes and soliciting fortunes in donations to build ever gaudier houses...
...McMahon, the Chicago Bears’ wild quarterback of the mid-1980s and an unlikely graduate of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, said that the best thing about Provo was “leaving...
...garage band. Benson Benson is a much better than average vocalist, his licks are compelling, and his experimentation within the garage idiom so refreshing that restraint hardly matters. Lapalco’s appropriately titled opener “Tiny Spark” greets with random electronica samples from the mid-1980s, but then rolls over into an upbeat, self-confessing rocker that is quintessential road music. Instead of upping the ante, Benson then moves down a gear into “Metarie,” a frankly earnest ballad about the first, halting steps of a burgeoning relationship. Folky guitars...
...their service but not the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. The position is consistent with the University’s policy toward other student groups, such as final clubs, which were cut off from the University in the mid-1980s because they did not allow women to join. The University should maintain the current arrangement with ROTC for the sake of the moral statement that the Faculty made when it ruled that discrimination against gays is wrong, even when that discrimination is perpetrated by the U.S. government...