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...Above the pounding music, one heard snatches of Grammy-related conversation - like shards from a dub mix of one of those party-line phone calls popular in the '80s. About Steely Dan: "I thought those guys were dead, man...." About Christina Aguilera: "Great abs, bad hair..." About award co-presenter Val Kilmer: "What was he NOT doing with Robbie Robertson...? Like, why was he even there...
...History will tell us that in the '90s, the champions in the Ivy League had either zero losses or one loss, and in the '80s it was three losses, occasionally four. For the most part, four losses is not going to do it in the end," Sullivan said after the Brown loss...
...Sports rise on their personalities, as the NBA did on the wings of Bird, Magic and Michael in the '80s and '90s, and NASCAR on Sunday lost its brightest star. But new levels of popularity (and demographic profitability) are not built on 49-year-olds. Earnhardt's old-school cred might have come in handy for a sport that can expect trouble from its traditionalists the more successful it becomes, and for a true NASCAR believer there was always Earnhardt to cut the bitter taste of pretty-boy superstar Jeff Gordon...
...million for thousands of Clean Water Act violations; in another case, a manager pled guilty to illegally dumping toxic wastewater into the Pagan River; the state of Virginia also has a suit pending against the company alleging more than 22,000 discharge and pollution violations from the mid-'80s...
There have been other impediments to raider activity. Better management, for instance. Gone is the widespread corporate fat that marked the '80s. Two decades of shareholder activism and a hotly competitive global economy in the '90s have led CEOs to trim fat without prodding...