Word: mid-1980s
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Walsh said that at one point in the mid-1980s, the mayor received three separate school salaries...
...Philip Dowds, the association president, said last week that the state Ethics Commission had failed to fully investigate a real estate Joan Healy took out with City Solicitor Russell Higley in the mid-1980s...
Some of the best stories about the band involve the University's storied rivalry with Yale. In the mid-1980s, the band from fair New Haven was even forced to follow in the Crimson's footsteps...
...conference gave rise to numerous collaborations, and participants began trading lab samples with one another and with a growing number of additional interested scientists. "We had gonads flying around the country," says Colborn. As the researchers compared notes, the evidence began to mount. During the mid-1980s, Colborn learned, mortality rates for alligator eggs in Lake Apopka, Florida, soared to 96%, in contrast to 57% in most Florida lakes. The almost certain cause: a 1980 chemical spill that included DDT. In 1993 researchers found that terns in PCB-contaminated Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts, had reproductive-tract abnormalities including the presence...
...economy has not changed in a decade and a half; Haitian farmers grow thousands of acres of sugarcane for which there is no market in either Europe or the United States. Moreover, when Reagan's Carribean Basin Initiative failed to stimulate growth and create new markets in the mid-1980s, Haiti's faltering economy crumbled. With the collapse, poverty, disease and hunger wracked the population, and misery became the easiest thing to find in the country...