Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women head into the 1990s, are they really so burned out from "having it all" (i.e., doing it all), so thoroughly exhausted from putting in a full day at work and then another full evening at home, that they dream nostalgically of the 1950s? Can they really be aching for the dull but dependable days when going to meetings meant the PTA or the Scouts, when business travel meant the car pool, when a budgetary crisis meant the furnace had broken? Is the feminist movement -- one of the great social revolutions of contemporary history -- truly dead? Or is it merely...
...buzz word for the 1990s, especially in the entertainment business these days, is global. Paramount Communications last week announced that it had taken a major step in that direction by purchasing a 49% stake in the British firm Zenith, Europe's leading independent television programmer. A subsidiary of Carlton Communications, Zenith last year produced such dramas as The Paradise Club and Inspector Morse in Britain, as well as the romantic comedy Finnegan Begin Again...
...annual report put revenues for the production company at $95 million. "The Zenith acquisition represents our most significant entry into the international market," said Mel Harris, president of Paramount's Television Group. "By aligning ourselves with the United Kingdom's major independent producer, we are positioning ourselves for the 1990s and 1992, when Europe's trade barriers fall...
...American commitment to quality comes at a time when competitive challenges from abroad are growing rapidly and more and more foreign-owned plants are being based in the U.S. In the 1990s such competitors as Japan and West Germany will be joined by strong new rivals from much of Asia, from a more muscular European Community and from such Latin American countries as Mexico and Brazil...
...where are the students? They are being forced to spend their Pell grants and scholarships on expensive private health insurance. If ever there were an issue for the 1990s, an issue that combines social consciousness with a healthy dose of self-interest, it is the issue of creating a national health care system...