Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Metro officials described it, will be more agreeable to commuters than the customary combination of industrial fumes and assorted human waste. That distinction apparently did not apply to Madeleine's precursor, Francine, an ill-fated odor that generated more complaints than praise when it was floated in the early 1990s. Five years in the making, Madeleine was designed to be "sweet rather than violent," a scent "that lingered for two weeks and that suggested a feeling of cleanliness and well-being rather than of filthiness being covered up," according to Metro director Jacques Rapoport. Pepe LePew would approve...
Clearly the stigma is gone. Appearing in ads has become prestigious--a status symbol. Why? Mainly because in the 1990s the prestige of commerce and the glamour of money have soared along with the economy. This explains why zillionaires are wanted to endorse products and helps explain why they would do such a thing. There are other reasons, of course. Buffett and Lynch are both pushing products of their own companies. Those I'm-the-wonderful-CEO ads are also justified as being good for the company--at least in the CEO's own swollen head. There has been published...
...existence of--their wealth. In Veblen's day they did it by "conspicuous leisure"--not working. But today there is no prestige in not working. The fashion is for rich people to keep working very hard. Veblen's other suggestion was "conspicuous consumption"--spending a lot. But in the 1990s many folks have become rich beyond the practical ability to show it off by spending. The richest man in America has built a house that supposedly cost $60 million, which is a lot. But he surely didn't do it to show off his wealth, since there are dozens...
...most solitary and most powerful hero in biblical history...After him, nothing else was the same again." Even baseball managers grow eloquent about Moses as paragon: when recounting why Mets star Bobby Bonilla failed to inspire his teammates during his first stint with the team in the early 1990s, Frank Cashen explained, "He was supposed to lead us out of the wilderness, take us to the Red Sea and part the waters. It didn't work that way. He said he couldn't swim...
...1990s The cold war's end shifts resources from the military to civilian economy. Technological innovation spurs investment, job growth and productivity...