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Hill Street Blues (NBC, 1981-87). Though it grew stale and self-important, Steven Bochco's gritty, rambunctious, richly textured look at a big-city police precinct set new standards for TV drama in the '80s...
Jeopardy! (syndicated, 1984- ). TV's most challenging game show was too smart for the '70s: NBC canceled it in 1975 after a decade on the air. But it reappeared triumphantly in a new syndicated version in the '80s. Who says TV is getting dumber...
...80s have been a significantly good decade," says Malcolm Forbes, 70, the ebullient magazine publisher whose $2 million Moroccan birthday party for himself epitomized the decade's love of self-indulgence. "Critics point to the glitterful excesses and the greed, but, God, they miss the point," says Forbes. "This was the decade that saw the triumph of U.S.-led free enterprise. Rebuilding the economies of Eastern Europe now offers huge opportunities, and it will be done in the next decade...
...quoting Felix Rohatyn, who has an absolutely failed record of doomsday predictions?" asks Milton Friedman, Nobel- prizewinning economist at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. "The U.S. economy is fundamentally very healthy, and there's no reason why the '90s shouldn't be just as good as the '80s, or better. There's no reason why we shouldn't have a decade of rapid growth and relatively low inflation...
Maverick billionaire H. Ross Perot doesn't buy that. "The '80s is the decade that we gave away our industrial lead and acted totally irresponsibly in wrecking some of our big corporations through leveraged buyouts," he says. "We felt affluent because we were living off borrowed money. We've got to clean up education, clean up the deficit, clean up the drugs, clean up the justice system, clean up industry. But right now it's like Lawrence Welk music: it's just wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. And nobody will fix it before it breaks...