Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coerce a little vox out of the unemployed populi who glare suspiciously at them; nor am I alluding to eyeball-glazing newspaper business features led by headlines like, "Whither Textiles?" I'm referring to what happened the last time there was a burp in the economy, in the early 1990s: the transformation of harmless activism into foot-stomping fanatacism...
...spectrum, that period was when the NRA nutballs and prayer-in-school peons started gathering steam. On the other side of the political fence, you recall the rebirth of radical feminism, culminating in the so-called "Year of the Woman" in Washington. Any way you slice it, the early 1990s were years of activism on steroids, when everyone and anyone with a cause felt justified in taking any actions whatsoever to propel their narrow agenda forward with the rest of their zealous cohorts...
...apartheid system began to unravel in the early 1990s, students activists--and the ACSR--began to shift their attention away from Harvard's investments in South Africa...
...attitude of the department is apparent--the head man doesn't care. Athletic Director Bill Cleary '56 might be a legendary hockey player and coach, but he's carried a petty grudge against The Crimson for most of this decade because he says he was misquoted in the early 1990s...
...rich do you feel? That's the boom-or-bust question for the U.S. economy as Wall Street stumbles through a summer of pratfalls. The great bull market of the 1990s has pumped $9 trillion into investment portfolios and encouraged Americans to spend some of their gains--a trend that has helped sustain prosperity. But the "wealth effect"--the term economists use for the urge to splurge when we feel rich but to pull back when we feel poorer--could pound the economy if we see more days like last Tuesday, when the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 299 points...