And there were a couple of standout points in that decade of the 80s.
Happily, that strategy worked, and later in that decade ATG was eventually bought by Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL).
The fertility rate, 1.74 in 1980, climbed a bit later in that decade, but has fallen since.
It was part of the LSE undergraduate program in that decade for example.
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In that decade, the country added some 1.7 million telecommuters, almost twice the much ballyhooed increase of 900, 000 transit riders.
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In that decade, scientists observed a temperature increase of 0.72 degrees in wind farm regions compared to areas without turbines.
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In that decade, the gap between rich and poor widened by 60%.
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But even more crucial were Germany's and France's efforts later in that decade, under Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy respectively, to push through economic reforms.
Yes, there were short-term rallies in that decade of devaluation, but overall stocks were largely flat in nominal terms, but well down in real terms.
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The number of women enrolled in college nearly doubled in that decade, for example, and the employment rate for women rose four times as fast as it did for men.
Last month, I noted that in the decade since that initial attention, all those infomediary companies have gone bust.
All of this isn't to say that in the decade just ended that certain investors didn't make huge bets that didn't work out.
Right now there are tremendous opportunities in healthcare that will come to fruition in the next decade that you can buy at cheap valuations because the market overall is weak, and no one knows how Obamacare will unfold.
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Between the Black Sea and the Chinese border, more than 70m people live in eight countries that did not exist in that form a decade ago.
Crime rates dropped in the early 1980s as that generation aged, rose in the latter part of that decade as the use of crack cocaine grew, then dropped again in the 1990s as the nation's economy improved, analysts say.
He says that both a rise in domestic quality across the Western Cape and growth in fine-wine prices mean that in the next decade an iconic wine will emerge from South Africa.
And looked what happened to both them and Apple in the decade that followed.
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Consider that in the decade between 1900 and 1909, a near record 8.2 million immigrants arrived at our shores.
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But after Democrats and Republicans committed to fiscal discipline during the 1990s, we lost our way in the decade that followed.
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This is the second time in a decade that the Chinese art market has slowed after a spurt of growth, Hu noted.
The outcome of these issues will substantially affect the perception of both Major League Baseball and the fantasy sports industry in the decade that lies ahead.
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It's true that in the decade before this season, five different clubs were crowned German champions, which compares favorably to England (four), Italy (three) and Spain (three).
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By last fall, NBC could boast for the first time in a decade that it was drawing the most viewers in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic prized by advertisers.
In the decade that has elapsed, thousands of new employees have joined the ranks of controllers, meaning that fully one-third of the work force has never had the chance to ride in an airline cockpit.
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Although they have suffered their share of slings and arrows from recent budget cuts and shorter hours, the American Library Association reports that in the decade ending in 2009, there was actually a net public library increase.
We forecast that growth in total productivity throughout the decade will be higher in Peru, and that Mexico will continue to post the lowest productivity growth in the region as a consequence of low competition in many economic sectors.
Even if they could, those features would quickly become obsolete in cars that are in use for a decade or more.
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The sort of loss that climate change inflicts in a decade is often the sort of gain that better farming brings in a year.
In a postscript, the Oxford researchers point a finger at Dingell, referencing the Congressman's role in a scandal more than a decade ago that resulted in the ouster of oncologist Bernard Fisher from the University of Pittsburgh after an allegedly fraudulent result.
That's a product that was in Europe for a long time that only came to America in the last decade, but now Americans know it.
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