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  • noun The decade that included the years 1980 to 1989. Also abbreviated as "the '80s."

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  • noun the decade from 1980 to 1989

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Examples

  • Nonetheless, even those most firmly committed to building the community center/mosque in lower Manhattan have struggled with the seemingly powerful argument that what happened at Auschwitz in the 1980s is a reason to rethink their position.

    Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie: Auschwitz and the Mosque Near Ground Zero: The Problems with This Analogy Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie 2010

  • Nonetheless, even those most firmly committed to building the community center/mosque in lower Manhattan have struggled with the seemingly powerful argument that what happened at Auschwitz in the 1980s is a reason to rethink their position.

    Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie: Auschwitz and the Mosque Near Ground Zero: The Problems with This Analogy Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie 2010

  • Those who follow the funeral industry point out that the very same demographic reality that gave us the Pepsi generation in the 1960s and thirtysomething in the 1980s is about to usher in what has been called the Golden Era of Death.

    The Indomitable Jessica Mitford 2006

  • Those who follow the funeral industry point out that the very same demographic reality that gave us the Pepsi generation in the 1960s and thirtysomething in the 1980s is about to usher in what has been called the Golden Era of Death.

    The Indomitable Jessica Mitford 2006

  • An intellectual and political movement in favor of political, economic, and social conservatism that arose in opposition to the perceived liberalism of the 1960s: “The neo-conservatism of the 1980s is a replay of the New Conservatism of the 1950s, which was itself a replay of the New Era philosophy of the 1920s” (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.).

    Think Progress » VIDEO: A Merry O’Reilly Retraction 2005

  • The acid rain debate of the 1970s and the 1980s is another case in point.

    Climate Change and the Kyoto Accord 2002

  • More than half of the increase in child poverty in the 1980s is attributable to changes in family structure, according to David Eggebeen and Daniel Lichter, of Pennsylvania State University.

    Dan Quayle Was Right 1993

  • More than half of the increase in child poverty in the 1980s is attributable to changes in family structure, according to David Eggebeen and Daniel Lichter, of Pennsylvania State University.

    Dan Quayle Was Right 1993

  • More than half of the increase in child poverty in the 1980s is attributable to changes in family structure, according to David Eggebeen and Daniel Lichter, of Pennsylvania State University.

    Dan Quayle Was Right 1993

  • More than half of the increase in child poverty in the 1980s is attributable to changes in family structure, according to David Eggebeen and Daniel Lichter, of Pennsylvania State University.

    Dan Quayle Was Right 1993

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