1986 definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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Since 1986, the government - with the support of foreign countries and international agencies - has acted to rehabilitate and stabilize the economy by undertaking currency reform, raising producer prices on export crops, increasing prices of petroleum products, and improving civil service wages.

—The 2002 CIA World Factbook

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Word Spy dates its first appearance in print back to 1986, when Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas was quoted in the National Journal explaining that "grass roots" letter campaigns were "AstroTurf in many cases, artificial turf."
The European directive on how such animals should be treated dates from 1986, long before research led to the breeding of the first creatures that carried the genes of another species.
Back in 1986, Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin had a dream.
Each one of us had had to abandon guise, so that this locus of Newyork 1939-1986 must require new Adjusters to replace us--a matter to be charged against the guilt of Foraminifera 9-Hart Bailey's Beam, I deem This concluded Steps 3 and 2 of our Adjustment, the removal and the isolation of the disturbed specimens. — The Day of the Boomer Dukes
There was, for instance, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (eloquently described as "a stinking mess" by a prominent law enforcement official). — The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier