Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tokyo to Paris to Hollywood, media moguls sized up the new firm, trying to gauge its potential clout in the increasingly fierce international battle for the attention of readers, filmgoers and television viewers. The New York Times proclaimed that the union would "insure Time Warner a place in the 1990s as one of a handful of global media giants." Declared the Chicago Tribune: "The deal creates a corporate dynamo." In Munich the daily newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung disagreed, predicting that the union would be a "Tower of Babel." And on Wall Street, where there had not been much excitement since...
...redraw the political face of Europe. Last week's gathering of 35 foreign ministers ushered in a modern-day reprise to redraft the Continent's military map. The talks, called CFE -- Negotiations on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe -- are destined to be the arms-control battlefield of the 1990s...
...difficult to distinguish between genetic abnormalities and normal human variability. "We haven't thought much about how to draw the line," admits Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota. "It is going to be one of the key ethical challenges of the 1990s...
Their dismay at the appointment is hardly surprising; Bok could not have picked a more controversial professor to lead the Law School into the 1990s. At a time when diversity--of gender, race and politics--is such a key issue for the Law School, Bok's choice is truly puzzling...
...high cost of housing in Boston and the difficulty of luring two-career academic families are intensifying the competition to recruit the best junior faculty. Those concerns are particularly pressing, experts say, because the pool of high-quality young scholars has decreased, and will only get smaller in the 1990s...