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...beginnings of the new mind-set probably go back as far as the stock- market crash of 1987, which had little immediate effect on the overall economy but gave many people an uneasy feeling about the Roaring Eighties. The spectacular failures of such '80s heroes as Michael Milken and Donald Trump have discredited the era's role models as well. ''The 1980s showed how ugly this country could be, like racism did,'' says April Gilbert, a Stanford M.B.A. and shipping executive who hopes to join a nonprofit company soon. ''In the 1980s I was fed up and almost angry with...
...show, be it "Jerry Springer" or "Divorce Court." The current popular location for self-exposure is "Survivor." Unlike many of the literati, I find certain saving graces with the program. For one thing, the very word "Survivor" is now less likely to conjure up the image of a mediocre '80s band providing music for mediocre Sylvester Stallone movies. Now it brings to mind the notion of 16 narcissistic individuals conniving to win a million dollars - the relative pittance put up by deeply cynical TV executives who are raking in hundreds of millions in advertising dollars playing to our collective voyeurism...
...gestures he used seemed designed to show that the candidate hadn't been kidding. In response to the February arrest of alleged spy Robert Hanssen, Bush ordered nearly 50 Russians out of the U.S., setting off a round of tit-for-tat expulsions not seen since the mid-'80s. In talks with China's Vice Premier, Qian Qichen, he bluntly said Washington would sell whatever arms it chose to Taiwan, whether Beijing liked it or not. Bush and his advisers seemed downright eager to prove there's a new sheriff in town, ready to take a more hawkish, assertive posture...
...practical solution would be to do what the movie industry did when VHS threatened movie sales in the '80s: embrace the technology and find a profit in the end. Movie rentals and sales currently enjoy an enormous market. A good business, after all, is adaptive. Yet still the recording industry, perhaps because of the relative effortlessness of digital piracy and near-immunity from the law, feels it deserves special protection. Many pop icons, such as Metallica and Dr. Dre, applaud efforts to preserve record sales as grounded in good principle and in recognition of the blood and sweat...
...gestures he used seemed designed to show that the candidate hadn't been kidding. In response to the February arrest of alleged spy Robert Hanssen, Bush ordered nearly 50 Russians out of the U.S., setting off a round of tit-for-tat expulsions not seen since the mid-'80s. In talks with China's Vice Premier, Qian Qichen, he bluntly said Washington would sell whatever arms it chose to Taiwan, whether Beijing liked it or not. Bush and his advisers seemed downright eager to prove there's a new sheriff in town, ready to take a more hawkish, assertive posture...