1980s

Swap shop culture returns as shoppers learn to watch their pennies - Daily Telegraph

The Swap shop culture of the 1970s and 1980s has re-emerged on the internet, as families look to fund their spending by selling off unwanted items, according to new research. In an attempt to cut back on their bills, thousands of families are only ...

Looking for Investment in a paradise?

There are many real estate companies Phuket which have been extremely implicated in marketing and development of major residential as well as commercial properties in Phuket right from the day the magnificent island was converted into the resort since early 1980s. With the continual changing of life ...

Subprime lawsuit filings accelerate in 2008

The subprime crisis is on track to spawn as much litigation as the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, with the number of lawsuits from borrowers and investors in related debt and equities now well into the hundreds, according to a recent study by Navigant Consulting Inc., a Chicago-base ...

The 1980s

Why oh why oh why have the 80s style cars gone extinct!?! I am an absolute addict to the 1980s. Hey what? So sue me if I love the 80s. The music I'm not so crazy about but everything else is totally boss! But look, car companies want to sell and make good money. And don't they always say they want t ...

Why A Wood Pellet Stove Is So Advantageous

Ever since their invention in the 1980s these stoves have gained in popularity over the years. These are essentially stoves that operate on electricity and are rather small in size. These are used to burn pellets and pose many advantages like minimal waste production and high efficiency levels. How ...

Wall Street CEOs have no idea how their firms make money

It dates back at least to the early 1980s when one firm, Salomon Brothers, suddenly began to make more money than all the other firms combined. (Go look at the numbers: They're incredible.) The profits came from financial innovation ...

Serviced Apartments Ownership the latest trend...

Conceived in the USA back in the 1980s, the apart-(or condo) ... for lifestyle and regular usage but wholly ineffective for investment as owners faced low liquidity

Book Review - Sensorium - Embodied Experience, Technology, and...

Publisher MIT Press says:The relationship between the body and electronic technology, extensively theorized through the 1980s and 1990s, has reached

Whatever China does, Tibet will still demand its freedom

Guardian Unlimited - Following violence in the late 1980s and another period of dreadful human-rights abuses, the Communist party had embarked on a policy of colossal capital investment in Tibet to develop its sclerotic economy.

Panel to urge wide probe into 'grease money'

Globe and Mail - OTTAWA — Ottawa has to convene a broad public inquiry into the actions of European firms that disbursed millions in "grease money" in Canada in the 1980s, opposition MPs will urge today as they prepare a final report into the Mulroney-Schreiber ...

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