The 1980s Property Boom

Mediating the microcomputer: The educational character of the 1980s British popular computing boom.

In the early 1980s the computer entered the British home in significant numbers for the first time as many thousands of people purchased their first personal 'microcomputer'. In this paper I explore the educational character of the home computer boom, a response to unease over the impact of new information technologies. Media, government, social movements and computer manufacturers constituted ...

The Baby Boom and the Stock Market Boom

This paper addresses two issues. The first is whether demographic change was plausibly responsible for the run-up in stock prices over the last decade, and whether the attempt by the baby boom cohort to cash out of its investments in the period 2010-30 might lead to an “asset meltdown.” The second issue is whether the rise in dependency that will accompany the retirement of the baby boom cohort...

Monographing in the 1980s

ALISO 11(2), 1985, pp. 231-242 The production of taxonomic monographs is discussed in light of the modem tools that are available for their preparation. There is a great need for more monographs since much of the world's flora is not treated in contemporary revisions. These should be a balance between the traditional aspects that must still be employed such as the nomenclatural framework and th...

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The Bidi Boom

Although most people recognize that smoking is bad for children's health, one smoking trend among teenagers and adolescents that is only recendy getting the attention it deserves is the use of bidis, thin, handrolled, unfiltered cigarettes made with sundried tobacco that is wrapped in the leaf of the tendu, a plant grown in India's forests. Strong flavors such as vanilla, strawberry, cinnamon, ...