Word: 1990s
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Creatine, which became popular among professional and Olympic athletes in the early 1990s, is still a new supplement. While it has not shown any short-term side effects other than muscle pulls, there has not been enough time to determine if creatine causes any problems in the long run. Although the NCAA has not put creatine on its list of banned drugs, the Harvard athletic department does not promote the use of creatine or other nutritional ergogenic aids (performance-enhancing substances...
...Money magazine came out with an issue denoting the "hottest careers of the 1990s." This list featured careers that promised to be "financially rewarding, challenging and prestigious...
Wilson told the largest audience of her tour thus far that "we have accomplished the specific objectives" of the 1990s, and must now "look at the longer-term greater prize...
What's the difference between a business slowdown, a so-called growth recession and a real recession (classically defined as two consecutive quarters or more of negative growth)? Through most of the increasingly boomy 1990s, American businessmen, workers and consumers by and large would have answered, Who cares? None of the three versions of economic contraction registered even as blips on the national radar screen. But brace yourself: it may be time to make those painful distinctions. The consensus of TIME's Board of Economists, which convened recently in Manhattan to assess the outlook through next year, is that...
John Hsu, whose investment company manages some $500 million in assets, observes that "given all the losses that U.S. banks suffered in the late 1980s and early 1990s, you would think they would remember what went wrong." Concurs Ken Guenther, executive vice president of the Independent Bankers Association of America: "Why wasn't the Fed blowing the whistle on these totally inappropriate, crapshoot investments by some of the biggest banks in the country...