He ran a property development business in the eighties.

他在80年代经营一家房地产开发公司。

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Even worries about uprising gas prices and future fuel availability subsided in the eighties almost as quickly as they had emerged.

即使是对汽油油价上涨和未来燃料供应的担忧，在80年代也几乎以同样快的速度消失了。

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The middle class had been shafted in the eighties, and Bush had been crippled by signing a gas-tax increase.

中产阶级在80年代受到了不公平的对待，而且老布什因为签署了增加汽油税的法案而遭遇了很多抨击。

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The settlers had plans to remove water from the area and in the eighteen eighties developers began digging drainage canals.

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They are being honored for their work in the nineteen eighties about the health of cells and the aging process.

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In the nineteen eighties and nineties, an American television comedy series told about four older women living in Miami,Florida.

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Securitization of mortgages started in the eighties, the brainchild of Lew Ranieri then at Salomon Brothers.

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In the Eighties Hawaiian Senator Daniel Inouye, himself a WWII veteran, introduced legislation (unsuccessful) to return the original date.

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Add to this the fact that my mother and my grandmother who are, notwithstanding, very fashionable women believed in the eighties.

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