By the mid-1980s, the world economy was up and running in a virtuous cycle that benefited the world economy and most notably Japan that experienced its golden decade.

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By mid-decade the golden joystick had been passed to a cheap, Japanese import, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

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The high-end luxury watch is an evolving concept that has experienced a golden age over the last decade or so.

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The Golden State has shed a third of its manufacturing base over the past decade.

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Not surprisingly, because of regulations and the authorities' bureaucratic foot-dragging, the Golden State's utilities haven't built a major new generating plant in more than a decade.

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