Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1990s, Coles led a program for Harvard students involved in summer PBHA activities which combined literary readings and seminar discussions to give participants the chance to reflect on their volunteer experiences...
...introduction to Air Force training was a particular passion of General Merrill McPeak, the service's chief of staff in the early 1990s. McPeak, a fighter pilot who had flown with the Thunderbirds, the Air Force's precision-flying team, is now retired but still flies his own homemade, acrobatic RV-4 aircraft. "The T-41 is your grandmother's airplane," says McPeak of the T-3's predecessor. "Our mission is to train warrior-pilots, not dentists to fly their families to Acapulco...
...cards bulging their wallets, consumers were increasingly leaving home without American Express plastic. Instead of paying membership fees for cards that many merchants refused to honor--since American Express took a heavy bite out of purchases--more than 2 million Amex holders cut up their cards in the early 1990s. "We were in fairly sharp decline," says Kenneth Chenault, American Express's president...
Gates says the government is violating the spirit of innovation by questioning its business practices. He says that a 1990s operating system must, by definition, include a Web browser to be a viable product...
...many ways, then, Amistadis the consummate 1990s film about race in America. Its thematic simplicity is a perfect representation for where we are today. Slavery was bad, freedom is good. We don't get along, but we need to. Spielberg does not offer any lesson on how we can overcome the dark past he depicts and build the harmony that we so desperately seek. It is a shame that the President's initiative on race has, thus far, been equally devoid of substance. Nonetheless, any attempt to find solutions to our current predicament in Amistad will only further mire...