Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cohen, who herself read grant applicationsfor the Bunting Institute during the early 1990s,says much of Title IX law is open tointerpretation. With institutions like theBunting, technicalities can blur the meaning oflegal precedent...
...Prudent management--not exclusivity--dictates that they should be private," he said. "Some of the management issues in the 1990s necessitate each club look at how it functions...
...trend toward comprehensive component systems had been gathering steam for decades, but it was the recession of the early 1990s that got things boiling, especially in Europe. With profit margins pushed beyond the agony point, companies began letting their suppliers do more of the engineering and preassembly of integrated systems in increasingly complex cars. Air-bag makers like Sweden's Autoliv, for example, started buying up or forging partnerships with companies that make sensors, steering wheels and other related products and offering car companies complete, preassembled safety systems...
Some city councillors, like Reeves, back that claim. He says the women were all hired in the mid-1990s as a part of an affirmative action push...
...over homework is about even larger issues. Schools in the 1990s are expected to fill so many roles--and do so with often paltry resources and ill-qualified teachers--that it's no surprise more work gets sent home. For baby-boomer parents homework has become both a status gauge--the nightly load indicates the toughness of their child's school--and an outlet for nervy overbearance, so that each homework assignment is practically theirs to complete too. Yet the growth in dual-income families means less energy and shorter fuses for assisting the kids. And all the swirling arguments...