Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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George Bush appears to be bringing his Cabinet into the 1990s: he's adding women. The Cabinet has two: Lynn Martin (Labor) and Carla Hills (Trade). Last week Bush nominated a third, management consultant Barbara Franklin, 51, to take over the Commerce Department from Robert Mosbacher, who is leaving to run the President's re-election campaign...
Much has changed since the planners of 1953 mapped out their scenarios. The nuclear weapons of the 1990s are far more accurate and more penetrating, and while satellite surveillance has been enhanced, warning times in case of attack have been reduced. The helicopter flight time from the White House to Mount Weather is about 20 minutes, but a missile fired at the U.S. by a submarine lying just off the coast could strike within 10 to 15 minutes after launch. And there are some nuclear-weapons experts who say, all planning and testing notwithstanding, a direct nuclear hit on Mount...
...stepped forward to announce that he had tested HIV positive, his plight suddenly seemed like everybody's nightmare. Johnson's claim that he picked up the AIDS virus heterosexually, rather than through intravenous-drug use or homosexual contact, dramatically raised some of the most crucial health questions of the 1990s: How easy is it to get AIDS from straight sex? How fast can it spread? Could an AIDS epidemic like the ones sweeping through Third World nations take root in the general U.S. population as well...
...sacs familiar from Steven Spielberg movies. You know the scene: a tract-house version of the Norman Rockwell family seated at the breakfast table, dog in the corner waiting breathlessly for some scraps. In the congestion of all these American icons, say hello to Moreno Valley in the 1990s...
...decade of the 1990s will be a period of turmoil and crisis in the Soviet Union. If Gorbachev prevails, he will continue to change his country and the world profoundly. If he does not, he could lose power to another leader. But rather than a defeat, this would be the ultimate triumph of the Gorbachev era. He would set an example for a democratic future in the Soviet Union by accepting an orderly transition of power...