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Lee Iacocca, who co-designed the Ford Mustang and rescued Chrysler in the 1980s, has passed away
July 3, 2019	Business 0 11
He was instrumental in the development of the Ford Mustang and the Chrysler minivans. Iacocca's youngest daughter confirmed that he died on Tuesday for natural reasons. He is survived by two daughters and eight grandchildren. The Italian immigrant parents, born Lido Anthony Iacocca on October 15, 1924 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, subsequently ran two major American car companies. Iacocca was founded. …
Microsoft teases Windows 1.0 and other software of the 1980s
July 3, 2019	Technology 0 4
Enlarge / Windows was handled in the '80s, but we're not sure what is actually being advertised. Either Microsoft is preparing for a very strange promotion, or someone from the Windows team has kidnapped a working time machine. Yesterday, the company released a video with a "brand new Windows" 1.0 "to its social channels, and it went so far that …
Video of self-help guru Tony Robbins with the N-Word video from the 1980s
May 24, 2019	Entertainment 0 1
The video by Tony Robbins, who repeatedly uses racial embankments, has been revealed. This is the latest in a series of harmful revelations about the polarizing life coach. Robbins' latest episode of a Buzzfeed survey of Robbins in the 1980s A presentation in front of a small crowd reminiscent of an earlier encounter he calls "militant black." To gasp in …
Rouhani: Iran may face more difficult conditions than the war with Iraq in the 1980s
May 13, 2019	World 0 2
President Hassan Rouhani called for the unity of Iranian political factions to overcome the conditions that he said were more difficult than those during the war with Iraq in the 1980s under unprecedented pressure, comparable to the invasion of Iran Saddam Hussein's army in Iran in 1980, which led to eight years of intense fighting and economic problems. Today it …
Bernie Sanders warned in the 1980s, the television media wanted to manipulate people's thoughts
May 4, 2019	World 0 1
N first found tapes of presidential candidate Senate Bernie Sanders when mayor showed a great distrust of the media. In 1981, Sanders won the mayor's race as an independent candidate against an established Democrat who entered the Burlington Town Hall, Vt., A professed socialist. During his tenure, Sanders launched a cable-TV television series entitled "Bernie Speaks to the Community" (19459006), …
Staggering New Data: Greenland's ice melts six times faster than in the 1980s
April 23, 2019	Science 0 4
Greenland, home to Earth's second-largest ice cap, has lost ice over time in recent decades – an almost six-fold increase that could contribute to future sea-level rise, according to a new study based on almost one-half of the century. The findings released Monday in the National Academy of Sciences estimate that between 1980 and 1990, the Greenland glaciers dumped just …
Oceans absorb carbon four times faster than the 1980s – Axios
March 15, 2019	Science 0 6
What They Have Done: For a new study published Thursday in the journal Science an international research team has determined how much carbon dioxide the oceans have absorbed. What they found: The study shows that between 1994 and 2007, the oceans had absorbed more than 100 billion tons of CO2, which represents about one third of the total emissions during …
Today Antarctica melts 6 times faster than in the 1980s, says a study
January 15, 2019	Science 0 5
WASHINGTON – Antarctica melts more than six times faster than in the 1980s, according to a new study. Scientists have used aerial photographs, satellite measurements and computer models to determine how fast the southernmost continent has melted since 1979 in 176 individual basins. They found that ice loss accelerated dramatically – an important indicator of man-made climate change. Since 2009, …
Apple's fight against artificial intelligence is the hardest since the 1980s – Quartz
April 7, 2018	Technology 0 9
Apple has done very well in recent years. It has money in the bank, healthy revenue, and it still sets the bar for what a modern smartphone should look like. But while the iPhone is unique, both for Apple and for the category of devices that inspired it. Over the next decade, technology companies are now launching the next wave …
A woman sued the Mormon Church claiming leaders raped her in the 1980s
April 6, 2018	US 0 13
SALT LAKE CITY – A woman who says a former Mormon mission leader raped her in the 1980s and the church did not take her allegations seriously has filed a lawsuit and on Thursday she wants the church to denounce her Path changes It handles reports of sexual abuse. McKenna Denson, 55, said she opted for legal action after she …