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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happy coincidence, the Winners saw a college education become a more prohibitive class barrier at exactly the same time that it became a near requisite for economic success...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Winners Take All | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

...liberals win, the '80s will be remembered--to paraphrase Jesse Jackson--as a dream for the few and a nightmare for the many. The decade saw political participation reach new lows and income inequality reach new highs. At current rates, 16 million American children will live below the poverty line in the year...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Who Writes History? | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

...1980s saw Democrats, the party of the people, standing up on the floor of the House of Representatives and lauding former Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker for smothering inflation by throwing millions of Americans out of work...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Winners Take All | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

...been a banner decade for the Winners. They saw their taxes slashed in 1982 and 1986, of course. But that wasn't the best part of it. The best part was that their position as Winners became increasingly stable and hereditary...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Winners Take All | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

...time of 'Krushelnyski on Ice, That's Nice.' When number 77 showed those of us who never saw number 4 what he was all about. Pederson to Middleton. Nifty...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Daddy? What Were Sports in The 80s Like? | 12/15/1989 | See Source »

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