Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With five national titles in the 1990s, including the last three championships, the Tigers stickmen have dominated the sport of late...
...fences, dogs and guns, $2 million; showers, $3 million; ovens, $12 million. Now one imagines a bill presented by the survivors consisting of the same items with some additional incidental charges for medical experimentation and the extraction of teeth. Naturally, today's bill would have to be adjusted for 1990s dollars. The mere image of it sinks the heart...
...MILOSEVIC AS HITLER Well, not exactly. Milosevic is the most dangerous European leader of the 1990s. He is a menace, a thug, a postcommunist villain who has cynically manipulated nationalism. He has blood on his hands. But his state does not have either the power or the ideological will to conquer Europe. While Germany under Hitler grew ever bigger, Yugoslavia under Milosevic has shrunk. The element of truth in this analogy is President Clinton's point about appeasement: the longer you put off standing up to aggressive dictators, the higher the price. If we had called Hitler's bluff when...
...President Bush's do-nothing approach to domestic policy. In the Bush White House, they were known as the Underground, the muscular and instinctive politicians who were more libertarian and diverse than the milkmen on whom the elder Bush relied. And they chafed during the late 1980s and early 1990s as the Republican Party alienated women and minorities. "This is the revenge of the deputies," says a veteran Bush aide. "These are the idealists who wanted to do more...
...Congress's Office of Technology Assessment had all the virtues sometimes claimed for science fiction. The OTA was concerned with genuine hard-core technological prediction. It paid close scholarly attention to technical trends and their social implications with facts, figures and footnotes--and Congress abolished it in the mid-1990s. The OTA didn't work out; science fiction suits us better. American society prefers having supergizmos dropped on its head out of nowhere, with no time to prepare and no real thought of the consequences. We love it that way. It's livelier, funnier, freer and just more American. "Leap...