Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nike is no stranger to off years. Knight hobbled the company with a cockamamie expansion strategy in the mid-1980s, and sales skidded in 1994. "There's going to be a down cycle every four or five years," he says. "And our job is to recognize that and keep the downs as shallow...
Earl Weaver, one of baseball's legendary gurus and mastermind of the Baltimore Orioles machine in the early 1980s, subscribed to the simplest of offensive philosophies...
Though the popularity of E-tickets is quicklyrising, E-tickets themselves are not a newinvention. Value Jet introduced E-tickets as itsprinciple method of ticketing in the late 1980s tocut costs and to save money. The fad was picked upby American Airlines and then spread to the restof the airline industry. However, althoughE-tickets themselves are not new, the technology involved is. A revamping of E-tickettechnology has led all three major airlines to notonly encourage the use of E-ticketing but toendorse its use to all of their customers...
...have so many students been applying to Harvard's Early Action Program lately? The numbers of students applying under Early Action increased fairly steadily during the 1980s and 1990s, reaching 2,990 in 1994. In that year, Yale and Princeton Universities switched from early action to bind early decision programs, and Stanford University, which had never offered an early program of any sort, adopting binding early decision as well. During the 1995 and 1996 admissions cycles, about 3,900 students chose our non-binding Early Action Program, and we experienced a slight increase to 4,200 this year. The number...
...constitution (which was drafted in the mid-1980s) emphasized homogeneity, unity and uniformity," Phillips said. The new constitution encourages the "interaction among all members of the Harvard community...