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Slams started in Chicago in the mid-1980s when Marc Smith, a former construction worker and a published poet, created them to revitalize poetry readings and reach new audiences. I first heard about them in 1991, when I reported on the growing phenomenon for TIME. Like many poets, I was suspicious of the concept. How could you judge poetry? Why would you want to? But when L.A.'s first team went to Portland, Ore., in 1996, I tagged along with some friends. While not everything I heard fit my definition of poetry, it was a Woodstock of words, images...
...Hamburg. Schnittke's works, termed "polystylistic," incorporated influences from diverse musical eras. Blacklisted by the Soviet Composer's Union for his nonconformity, Schnittke supported himself for years by writing movie scores. Despite his international reputation, he was barred from attending any performances of his work abroad until the mid-1980s...
Kaus did not fully develop his ideas about replacing the cash dole with jobs for the unemployed until the mid-1980s, when he wrote a series of articles on welfare policy for the New Republic magazine and began work on his book, The End of Equality, published...
Malodorous as all this may be, it is not likely to add up to a case. Even if Tucker had damaging stories to tell about Hillary's role in the project, the First Lady cannot be prosecuted today for what she did in the mid-1980s because the federal statute of limitations has run out. That leaves a perjury or obstruction case against her for losing records and telling falsehoods to the FDIC or grand jury, but Starr appears to have backed away from that idea. And though the prosecutors questioning Tucker focused on Hillary's Castle Grande work, according...
...mid-1980s, privatization was a new term in world government, and by the end of the decade more than 50 countries, on almost every continent, had set in motion privatization programs, floating loss-making public companies on the stock markets and in most cases transforming them into successful private-enterprise firms. Even left-oriented countries, which scorned the notion of privatization, began to reduce their public sector on the sly. Governments sent administrative and legal teams to Britain to study how it was done. It was perhaps Britain's biggest contribution to practical economics in the world since J.M. Keynes...