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...honestly say that in the late '70s [and] early '80s there was a problem, and the problem was that we didn't have the policy that we have now," says Carole Kleinfelder, who has coached women's lacrosse for more than two decades. House-sponsored happy hours and the 18-year-old drinking age made it difficult to crack down on drinking, she says...
...Call them the Beat-en Generation. Even the arc of his own life story parallels that of Japan's postwar history: he grew up poor amid the ashes of World War II. He came of age during the postwar boom. He found himself during the bubble economy of the '80s and early '90s, when he relentlessly poked fun at a too-rigid society and rebelled against a benumbing hierarchy. And now, finally, like Japan itself, he has grown into a bloated, entertainment superpower, still funny, still possessing formidable hidden powers, but an epigone of what he once...
...dealers that he either funded or fought in his heyday as Wall Street's junk-bond king have resurfaced, let back in the game by a receding stock market. And they aim to play. The names include Carl Icahn, Henry Silverman, Ted Forstmann, Irwin Jacobs and Henry Kravis--an '80s reprise that almost makes you want to cue the Ramones and slam dance...
...verge of a greedfest like the reckless '80s, a period that youngsters may be surprised to learn was far more rapacious than anything served up during the Internet bubble. But change is in the air, and the wolves have their noses up. Last week Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan cut interest rates for the second time in less than a month. The rate cuts make it cheaper to borrow, a must in almost all buyouts that aren't stock swaps...
...Your '80s exercise videos were called Do It Debbie's Way and Couples Do It Debbie's Way. How many people do you figure rented them by accident, thinking they were porn...